but generally speaking most of the stuff I've learned about and love has come through the traditional methods.

If anything, the biggest difference is that shopping online has helped me buy stuff I wouldn't have been able to find in local shops... I don't have a portable .mp3 player and rarely listen to music via computer except for finding links for conversations here.

I do have a fair amount of music on my hard drive, but most of it actually dates to the old days, when to share something on here we had to rip it, then upload it to yousendit; or conversely, was downloaded before preview-play sites like zshare became the norm.

NOt trying to get into a pissing match...

*shrug*