>then i bought my 1st portable mp3 player and suddenly it
>didn't make sense to go buy CDs so i could rip them to my
>harddrive as mp3s when i could just download mp3s from the
>Internet.

I was still buying the majority of the music I consumed until that first Anthony Hamilton album. I bought the album and brought it home to rip and found I couldn't... shortly after I noticed the little copy protection logo on the back. I was so pissed I could barely see straight... here I am supporting the artist and I have to go out and download a pirated copy to play on my mp3 player. That was when i said fuck it... I'll download pretty much everything and then buy the handful of albums I think are worth owning in a hard copy.

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