How do you get your music?

[Berethond]

many of my favorite songs i first heard on guitar hero, but my ipod also has a lot of famous classic rock bands from the 70s and stuff. most of my music is stolen from my sister who listens to mostly emo stuff like fall out boy.

Fall Out Boy =/= Emo.
Fall Out Boy = Suckiness

 

[Zersy]

*eyes everyone in the room*

Through an illegal source you cant know about

LIMEWIRE !!!!!

 

[Ace of Spades]

From an undisclosed source that no one may know about, and occasionally my brother.

 

[vede]

For artists I have easy access to, I'll buy a CD. For bands I don't (ie. Aria), I make friends with torrents. For bands that I can't even find torrents for (ie. Epidemia), I import a CD from its country of origin (usually Russia).

EDIT: Oh yeah, and my dad has an entire hard-drive dedicated to keeping his music collection safe, dating back to his teenager days in the '80s.

 

[UNHchabo]

I rip my CDs to FLAC format (it's a lossless format that preserves the audio quality of the CD) using Exact Audio Copy: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Then I use a program I made myself (FlacSquisher: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flacsquisher/ ) to convert the FLAC files to Ogg format (FlacSquisher can also convert to MP3s). I keep the FLACs on my desktop, and put the Oggs on my Sansa, which has Rockbox ( http://www.rockbox.org/ ) on it. Rockbox is a replacement operating system for portable media players, kind of like having Linux on it.

A few years ago I used to carry my entire CD collection in a giant CD wallet, but it got stolen when I was moving into my dorm, and since then I've ripped my CDs to FLAC format so that if I ever lose any other CDs, I'll still have perfect backup copies on my computer. As it is, I only have 160kbps MP3 rips of my old CDs, which is terrible because MP3s weren't designed to have smooth transitions between tracks, and I listen to tons of prog rock and classical music.

Check out Exact Audio Copy and FlacSquisher if you like having CD-quality music on your computer, and want to save space on your portable media player.

 

[neoman10]

I obtain all my music through legitimate means.

Downloading music is legal in Canada

your people have just gone above France in my country rating list

congratulations

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

I recently torrented the entire metallica discography. I hate Metallica and have no intention of ever listening to it, but just knowing that it's there on my computer spiting Lars Ulrich makes me happy.

I usualy download about 5 gig of music a month and spend about £30 on CDs. So I'm killing and saving the music industry all in one, yay!

 

[Jaebird]

African-European Swallow Hybrid

 

[Hippobatman]

Piracy.. Yeah, I said it!

I used Pandora for a while, then they saw through my clever scheme and kicked me out because I'm Norwegian. I thought I was so frickin' clever when I typed in the Beverly Hills zip code x)

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

For all of you that can't use Pandora as you are outside of the US, Last.fm is a similar service and works rather well in recommending artists for me.

I get my music mostly via bad way downloads, but my CD collection had trebled over the last month. It went from one to three.

 

[Vlane]

I buy the music except it's something I couldn't find. A few months ago I wanted to buy Pink Floyd's The Wall but I couldn't find it. So I downloaded the song I was looking for (Comfortably Numb). Later I found it and bought it.

 

[PersianLlama]

I generally buy cities and rip them to my computer. Occasionally I use other methods if I don't have the money.

 

[Kukakkau]

limewire. yes thats right copyright can go screw itself
besides that law states any copy of a file is illegal that means sending a databse to work from home is illegal
besides i owe like £20 so thats like a concert ticket. ooo sue me for your losses -.-

 

[blaze338]

I buy cds because i like to have the actual hard copy and i know with the cd i am always getting the best quality and actual version of the song

 

[GammaChris]

My parents have stockpiled a huge collection of cassettes and old vinyl records, so I digitize those with my trusty LimeWire connection. Otherwise, I go out and buy the CD or something like that. I've never used any file-sharing network to obtain music that I wouldn't otherwise legally have.... seriously!

 

[Zac_Dai]

I haven't bought a music CD since 2001, I actually forget they exist sometimes.

I usually use Last.FM to find me new people to listen to.

 

[worstknightmare]

i found a great site a while back called

http//:www.sideload.com

it's a great site for downloading songs and it's also legal because the song authors give consent for the songs to be on the site, and if they don't want it on there it is taken off,
doesn't have every song in the world, but has a pretty respectable database of free legal music

 

[MercurySteam]

Before i had my own computer i went to: http://www.seekasong.com/