Music Downloads...

[OhioBeachBum]

Who / What site do you use?

I'm a luddite. Hear a tune I like, I buy the CD. 9 times out of 10, there's at least one or two more on there I end up liking. Rip the tracks I really like off the CD and then leave them hanging around to dump into the little Rio or whatever. Artists are happy, I'm happy, and my musical tastes are regularly extended a bit. ;-)

 

[OhioBeachBum]

That's funny. I try to be so logical and methodical with hardware problems, yet the voodoo that the IT guys/gals use seems to work better, I swear.

I find swearing helps considerably.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I try to support local business whenever possible, knowing sometimes that it costs more. I look at the extra costs as the cost of creating new relationships with the people inside. Therefore, I usually by my music from the music store in Seaside. On the occasion when I download, I use Realplayer. It is also a useful source for discovering new artists whom I would not have otherwise heard about.

 

[drsvelte]

iTunes is so-o easy to use. $.99 a download.

 

[RiverOtter]

I'm a luddite. Hear a tune I like, I buy the CD. 9 times out of 10, there's at least one or two more on there I end up liking. Rip the tracks I really like off the CD and then leave them hanging around to dump into the little Rio or whatever. Artists are happy, I'm happy, and my musical tastes are regularly extended a bit. ;-)

I have been doing the same thing for 39 years. Time for a change

 

[OhioBeachBum]

I try to support local business whenever possible, knowing sometimes that it costs more. I look at the extra costs as the cost of creating new relationships with the people inside. Therefore, I usually by my music from the music store in Seaside. On the occasion when I download, I use Realplayer. It is also a useful source for discovering new artists whom I would not have otherwise heard about.

On the money - said well as usual.
The other reason I tend to avoid D/L is there's always a degree of (pollution) risk, though I'll give you that is reasonably minimal in most commercial venues. Generally speaking, the get-it-now digital download everything connected everywhere thing - from tunes and ringtones through the whole spectrum - is a target rich environment for techno exploiters of all sorts.

 

[OhioBeachBum]

I have been doing the same thing for 39 years. Time for a change

Change the "I" to "You" and I'm hearing an echo of my version of GraytonBound. :laughing1
Fair enough (and maybe I'll tear a page out of your book as well). I'll ask around at work tomorrow. Most of my fellow tech-heads are so darn totally wired they glow in the dark. At least a couple of them will be into music D/L & have done the due dilligence.

 

[Cil]

I-tunes, and the websites of the bands themselves.
Saw John Hiatt week before last and bought his new CD at the concert.
We also go down to the local record store as well.

 

[RiverOtter]

WTH am I doing wrong. I have spent the last 30 friggin minutes trying to get something ... anything out of itunes and still can't get past the friggin sign up pages

 

[RiverOtter]

I try to support local business whenever possible, knowing sometimes that it costs more. I look at the extra costs as the cost of creating new relationships with the people inside. Therefore, I usually by my music from the music store in Seaside. On the occasion when I download, I use Realplayer. It is also a useful source for discovering new artists whom I would not have otherwise heard about.

99.9% of the time I do the same thing. I refuse to go to a Walmart I buy local when I can. But I am growing tired of buying a whole cd based on 1 or 2 songs and have to suffer through the rest of the crap on that cd.