How Do You Get Your Music?

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<p>What with all the music discussion around, I'm just wondering how people get their music. Also, let's not let this deteriorate into a file-sharing vs no-filesharing debate, since:</p>

<p>a) I'm sure the majority of people here, being fairly young, are heavily into file-sharing. No point in having a biased argument.
b) I don't care.</p>

<p>As for me, I get virtually all my music via downloading (for free, not iTunes or any paid service). I'd estimate around 98-99% of it, although this may be simply because of the volume of music I have.</p>

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<p>me, my brother, and my sister together own about 2000 albums....</p>

<p>but for the songs that we just want randomly (which is usually like 1-2 a month) we download thru limewire.</p>

<p>but from downloading u usually only download mainstream songs. i suggest u buy more albums than downloading. the songs that dont become mainstream and sold as singles are usually the best ones. </p>

<p>this is my history of downloading things..
Scourge
Napster
WinMX
Kazaa
WinMX
Limewire <---- i still use</p>

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<p>Actually, I consider myself to be far more resourceful a downloader than most, so if I want anything, I can pretty much consider it found.</p>

<p>It is sometimes a struggle trying to find stuff in good quality though (256+/320VBR/lossless).</p>

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<ol>
<li>itunes music store</li>
<li>local music stores for stuff not on itunes</li>
<li>burned CDs from friends, I have many of these.</li>
</ol>

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<p>Chinese websites...every single CD you can ever think of....I pay a monthly fee (really cheap). :) Makes me happy.</p>

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<p>"K-Mart"...</p>

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<p>Wirehog!!!!</p>

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<p>limewire. if stealing music's bad, why does it feel so good?</p>

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<p>1) iTunes
2) Bearshare
3) Borrow CDs from the library and rip them</p>

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<p>I use Ares.</p>

<p>I don't get any pop-ups, which rocks</p>

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<p>Friends.</p>

<p>lol</p>

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<p>Occasionally Limewire, but most of the time I buy CD's off of Half.com or eBay for about $5 or $6 a piece. I almost never pay retail for any CD, I'd be broke if I did!</p>

<p>Oh, and I also have some burned from friends, or my brother, whichever is most convienient.</p>

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<p>Limewire!!
And sometimes iTunes, but only when I'm very very desperate.
mp3****s.com has free mp3s for download but I haven't used that in a while.</p>

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<p>the radio...</p>

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<p>CD's! and radio. No downloading for me</p>

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<p>Limewire!!!</p>

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<p>YES. limewire.</p>

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<p>if you don't know, on iTunes you can share music with anyone on your network. you don't download it from them you just listen to their music like a streaming radio station. so everyone on the mini network my university has in my section of the campus can listen to everyone else's music via iTunes. then there's myTunes. it's a program that works with iTunes (not put out by apple, just a random programmer). it lets you download that music instead of just listening to it. for mac there's OurTunes that does the same thing.</p>

<p>i used to download music on WinMX, Ares, or Sharaza, but the university scans ports and i already got my internet cut off once this quarter for sharing files (a movie actually), so i'm not doing that these days. you can usually find anything on the iTunes network.</p>

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<p>well, now it's not only itunes in the market.. msn join the fun too.. but still there are certain discrepancies when it comes to pricing and devices.. wirehog could do some good if it spreads a bit more.. but it would risk the network at the same time..</p>

<p>as for sharing, i'm quite sure u guys would have got atleast one of my realeases thru fsn's.. keep on leeching! :P</p>

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<p>Haha, wow, lots of greenhorns here.</p>

<p>I use Direct Connect for the most part, and occasionally Bittorrent.</p>