Where Do you get your Music?
 

Where do you guys get your music from. Please be honest --- even if you obtain your songs through *less-than-desirable* methods (I've even created an anonymous poll for the uber-"shy").

To be honest, I used to get all my music illegally ---- I seriously know of the BEST illegal music sites...

BUT, I've changed my ways. I now use iTunes. I buy the music from iTunes, burn it to a CD, and then rip the CD back into iTunes (I can get rid of the protected-AAC file that way).

So, where do usually get your music?

A small CD store near where I used to work, one of the staff produces ads and is a mad synth buff, so its fun to have a chat and he normally points out some cool new records. Even with discounts you pay a little more then JB Hifi etc, but it certainly is a more rewarding experience to the faceless drone service of most chain stores.

I'm lucky enough to get new material free from the promo companies. It is a pain though reacting to them all positively. Stuff i'm not sent I buy from Juno on line for download.

I've got a massive CD album collection thanks to cash generator & cash convertors. Pay them a visit every few months and just buy every album I might be intrested in, Usualy only costs £1.50 each because I buy so many. They get 1 listen then stashed away with the rest.

I used to get my vinyl/CD's from Chaos Unlimited in Brighton until they shut down 5 or 6 years ago......I think alot of it was to do with people just downloading everything for free.

I get all my CD's from Psy-shop in Germany and occasionally download stuff from Juno, but I prefer to have the CD with the proper case especially for DJing with. :cool:

In terms of day-to-day listening, I have SiriusXM (both built into my car and also a portable XMP3i). For buying music I've been getting most of my stuff from the old infamouse Russian music service for a fraction of what it costs on iTunes and such, although I don't think they accept new members (Ive been a member since 2005), it's called something else than it used to be these days and they have all sorts of underground channels for letting you give them payment which has become a bit inconvenient.

I'd love to know about alternatives, I'm just not going to pay more than 10 or 20 cents per song one way or another, and it's imperative that where ever I do download from, they are already ID3 tagged and organized properly into folders (my car has a disc changer that reads mp3 so I can fit lots of songs on one CD, but to navigate hundreds of songs per CD properly they should be organized right).

I download all of my music from either iTunes or MUCH preferably TrackItDown(dot net). CD's I look for in stores or order from the label themselves

I download all of my music from either iTunes or MUCH preferably TrackItDown(dot net). CD's I look for in stores or order from the label themselves.

I'm old school, I still love buying CD's. Then, of course, I rip them, convert to mp3 and transfer to my portable devices. Can't stand iTunes, but then again I can't stand pretty much anything from Apple.

Music is dead !!! I remember when I was going into shop and was listening to vinyls for an afternoon... this time as gone... We are all infected by music buisness, this is actual music ;)

Naaah, there are still people making good music. Of course you'd have to look outside of the usual commercial outlets... ;)

I prefer a good old CD. I have never downloaded digital music, unless it is a ring tone on my phone. Therefore, I prefer to buy CDs that I want something tangible for my money and I like to read the subtitles while listening to music.

I get my music from other producers, a lot of them I have known for many years.

I run a couple of labels and have a radio show, so I am never starved for fresh unreleased music.

if I purchase music, I buy from digital-tunes.net because they offer wav files for the same price as mp3's

i buy CD's. i refuse to pay for less than 16bit 44.1khz quality unless it's 1 song that i know i won't buy the full album. with a good DAC and nice headphones, it's still worth it for a good listen. can't afford to re-buy everything in vinyl.

lately i buy all my CD's off Amazon. if hip indie music stores were friendlier i'd still buy the discs in person, but sadly not so.

Do you mean like downloading from iTunes or from *ahem* "less costly" sites?

I for one refuse to pay the Apple Tax on music, and I do buy my music from legal but dirt-cheap overseas shops.

If it is legal and ethical for a USA company to manufacture their product overseas at lower labor costs, then nobody can tell me I don't have a right to legally purchase music from a foreign website at prices that reflect the cost of music in that country.

I was referring with to PirateBay and other p2p sites. Hoho.

Since Spotify came along I've focused my music purchases there. When I find music I really like, I buy it as a download even I don't have any concrete reason to since I have Spotify with me where ever I go. I just make sure the artists I like get bigger share from the music because even I have premium subscription the royalties from Spotify plays are lousy. Too much "freeloaders" I guess. All Twisted Records related purchases I buy from their own webshop.

I need to try Spotify one of these days. Right now my music collection of past stuff is pretty extensive. To hear new stuff (emerging electronic music) sometimes I will just download an entire compilation set (the ones that have like 50 tracks on them that would cost $35US if bought onshore), then listen to it at the gym on the treadmill with the ipod nano. Oddly enough its during these runs / music listening sessions that I think musical ideas/inspiration hit me the hardest (maybe endorphins and what not?). I think to run Spotify at the gym I'd have to use my phone and that would be klunkier than the tiny nano (not to mention I would sweat all over it and probably break it).

Spotify is the greatest comercial music distribution innovation, hands down. I can't even count the new bands and artists that I have found via Spotify. The "Related Artists" feature is awesome. Just pick one of your favourite artists and then check the "Related Artists" list and give alisten to ones you don't know yet. One other awesome thing in Spotify is that it contains even the most obscure records. I've dug up loads of old italian progressive rock and all kinds of traditional folk music from there that can't even be found from YouTube. If you have a chance to give it a shot, do not hesitate!

I wish I could pay more for that service. Now it costs 9.90€ per month for the most expensive Premium subscription but I'd gladly pay twice as much just to keep this service alive. Spotify is apparently struggling to keep going due to low financial income since most of the users are on the Spotify free that has ads like comercial radio. The ads don't apparently generate very much income and the whole business relies more-or-less on the subscribers. It would be huge loss if Spotify would go bankrupt.

I can hand on heart say...I don't think I've ever downloaded music illegally.

I'm a music lover and collector....and there is no pride of ownership or enjoyment out of acquiring something for nothing. I just like having something tangible...preferably vinyl because it sounds better...or CD.

I guess I'm different from most people. I look at others in the street playing with their phones...listning on their iPod...and I just don't get it. What is the appeal listning to crappy compressed audio on a noisy bus/train? Obliterating your ears in the process.

The way forward is high end audio...prefarably turntables and CD. Yeeehaaaw!

grooveshark.com has lots more artists and songs than spotify, and is fee with no annoying audio ads

But it's also illegal, so...

Matter of preference and priorisation. The quality of the recording is mainly just a bonus. I like to listen to the music itself: the composition, lyrics, sound design, etc. If I'd stick to only listening to music with high quality equipment, I would have missed lots of great music that's poor in production wise, but total greatness in musical aspect.

I am a new member here, and a pretty new Virus owner (TI2 desktop). I am an older guy and have a sizable vinyl collection that I accumulated in the 70's and early 80's.

These days I buy CDs primarily, and mostly from Amazon or directly from an artist's web page if not available. I just received Sylvan's recent double CD Sceneries in the mail from Germany. It is available only as an MP3 download from Amazon, and I found out from the band (via Facebook) that they ship internationally from their web store, so that is where I went.

I also download and listen to music by people with common interests that just put their stuff up for free. There is a lot of that happening in the modular synth world, and not just on Soundcloud.

Finally, I listen to internet radio stations such as SomaFM (Space Station Soma, Drone Zone, and Groove Salad primarily, though also Xmas in Frisco during the holidays and some others). I support SomaFM with an annual donation much like many folks support NPR.