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38. "I reached that point about a year ago myself."
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Generation entitled is still lying to themselves and pretending they hurt major, sell-out, materialistic artists. They don't, even when it flips to a new system, trust me they'll get way more caked off the usual mainstream shit than any of your present favorite rappers (who by now have given up anyway and just give away shit for free, especially the newer rappers). If you think the internet is the great equalizer, you're in denial, small labels will go way before any majors and as soon as profitable alternative outlets spring up, you know who's buying them.

Anyways I don't know if your intensely loyal to apple and iTunes, I'm not, thus I use Rhapsody. Rhapsody and Zune subscription services are ridiculously underrated. Basically, I get the best of both worlds and can access everything I used to as an illegal downloader. The only thing I download anymore is unreleased shit/bootlegs, which I don't consider illegal considering it's obviously unreleased and was never put for sale.

With Rhapsody, for only about 15 bucks a month (if you do the math that's less than 5 dollars a week), I can add any album I want to my music library. I can also transfer any of these albums to my Sansa mp3 player and thus take my music anywhere I go. What I like a lot, eventually gets bought on CD and ripped to .Flac. What I don't feel is worth buying (like a couple of tracks but nothing essential) I keep in the music library.

The only downside to all of this is that you can only do it with specific mp3 players. Zune is obviously for Microsoft mp3 players, Rhapsody rolls with the SanDisk Sansa line and a couple others. Ipods offer much more space than any Sansas, but in truth I don't miss the space. I'd rather pay 15 a month and take the time to switch out albums every once in awhile (as you get tired and want to hear something different anyway) then wait until I can afford a massive music library to put on my Ipod.

I'm yet to buy any digital music though. I still only purchase what I can find on CD. The rest stays on Rhapsody. I'd purchase MP3's if I could find somewhere to buy them in lossless format, though the more good albums that are released digitally, the closer I am to saying fuck it and buying the mp3 versions.

So basically, I have equal access to the music I like as I did during my illegal days and the artists get some compensation too.

  

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i've reached the point of feeling guilty for illegally downloading [View all] , philpot, Thu Feb-16-12 08:37 AM
 
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i reached that phase a year or so ago
Feb 16th 2012
1
well that makes one of us.
Feb 16th 2012
2
right. only 2343043432423 to go!
Feb 16th 2012
4
how did this happen?
Feb 16th 2012
3
maybe just maturation...
Feb 16th 2012
22
did anyone use rnbxclusive.com
Feb 16th 2012
5
i hate downloading music from illegal sources.
Feb 16th 2012
6
last night i noticed my iTunes library tags or whatever have no space
Feb 16th 2012
9
DUDE.... DON'T GET ME STARTED ON TAGGING!!!
Feb 16th 2012
12
LOL
Feb 16th 2012
14
Yeah, MP3tag (the software) opened my eyes to a lot of that
Feb 16th 2012
15
lack of labels is one of the things that makes mp3's so eh to me.
Feb 16th 2012
17
Grouping is where I put this
Feb 16th 2012
42
      i don't.
Feb 17th 2012
58
Browsing iTunes makes you think of digging through 45s? Really?
Feb 16th 2012
16
in a way, yeah.
Feb 16th 2012
18
      Fam, nothing against you personally but...
Feb 16th 2012
19
           fuck apple.
Feb 16th 2012
27
i've actually bought more since they implimented iCloud
Feb 16th 2012
37
CO. SIGN.
Feb 17th 2012
50
I'm surprised
Feb 16th 2012
7
good for you, guy!
Feb 16th 2012
8
How come the arguments defending it stopped working for you?
Feb 16th 2012
10
they just started feeling hollow and selfish...
Feb 16th 2012
21
The good news is there's a ridiculous amount of free heat
Feb 16th 2012
11
yep, plus lots of stuff is so reasonably priced...
Feb 16th 2012
23
At this point, I'm a nihilist
Feb 16th 2012
13
I never felt bad about it ever.
Feb 16th 2012
20
does it count as stealing if I check the music out at the library???
Feb 16th 2012
24
i think you are violating a liscensing agreement somewhere.
Feb 16th 2012
26
HaHa... I'm sure I am too...
Feb 16th 2012
28
only if you retain an unauthorized copy of it after you return it
Feb 16th 2012
30
I retain songs in my iTunes...
Feb 16th 2012
31
hahaha i'm sure that *feels* less dirty... but it still is
Feb 16th 2012
39
tell me more about this *paying* for *music* concept...
Feb 16th 2012
25
That's great. I'm the download then buy if i really like it type.
Feb 16th 2012
29
i only download OOP stuff so me no feel guilty
Feb 16th 2012
32
Spotify has changed a lot for me
Feb 16th 2012
33
i feel guilty for taping Stretch & Bobbito all those years....
Feb 16th 2012
34
lol
Feb 16th 2012
45
no.
Feb 16th 2012
35
lol
Feb 17th 2012
69
with over 300 original cds in my collection i feel authorized to
Feb 16th 2012
36
RE: with over 300 original cds in my collection i feel authorized to
Feb 18th 2012
70
ok, i don't even know why i'm about to say this, cuz i know ppl aren't
Feb 16th 2012
40
this is an underratted reply
Feb 17th 2012
67
RE: i've reached the point of feeling guilty for illegally downloading
Feb 16th 2012
41
are you fuckin serious?
Feb 17th 2012
49
right? these dudes is killing me here
Feb 17th 2012
59
      I can honestly say I haven't seen that argument yet lol
Feb 17th 2012
61
Hopefully you're trolling.
Feb 17th 2012
63
yeah
Feb 16th 2012
43
there's always the very catchy 'pirate'
Feb 17th 2012
53
Guilt is a useless emotion imo but
Feb 16th 2012
44
meh.
Feb 16th 2012
46
I mainly download free music, OOP, and hard to find.
Feb 16th 2012
47
Only time I don't feel guilty is when
Feb 17th 2012
48
i dont feel bad if i get stones throw
Feb 17th 2012
51
Those guys must hire blog assassins
Feb 17th 2012
62
My spotify account absolves me of all my sin.
Feb 17th 2012
52
I hope I never reach this point
Feb 17th 2012
54
Why?
Feb 17th 2012
55
      I enjoy listening to shit without guilt
Feb 17th 2012
57
When these artist reach the point of feeling guilty for putting out crap
Feb 17th 2012
56
Since Spotify, I barely download anything anymore
Feb 17th 2012
60
This describes the entirety of the illegal downloading
Feb 17th 2012
64
I stopped downloading a long time ago.
Feb 17th 2012
65
Did anyone ever feel guilty about buyin used CDs?
Feb 17th 2012
66
Here's how i REALLY feel about it
Feb 17th 2012
68

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