Where do you get your music from?

[TheGrandMarquis]

Where do most of you people get your mp3 file music?

[Cylob]

I go deep sea diving for mine, usually at a depth of 90-110 ft.

[ElChevelle]

If Cylob hasn't already started a thead on this topic, I'd be deeply disappointed as it would be hard to fathom

[NJK]

Originally posted by TheGrandMarquis
Where do most of you people get your mp3 file music?

I enter people's houses at night, take their cd's and rip them, bring them back and leave again.

[Namelessv1]

Hell

[dayee]

Originally posted by spaceplay
I enter people's houses at night, take their cd's and rip them, bring them back and leave again.

admiring you

[Cylob]

It's a popular dutch sport.

I tried it once and came across the biggest boy-band collection in history (just my luck)! That's where the portable flame-thrower comes in handy.

[zootm]

I rip the tracks from CDs I buy, primarily.

[NJK]

Originally posted by Cylob
It's a popular dutch sport.

I tried it once and came across the biggest boy-band collection in history (just my luck)! That's where the portable flame-thrower comes in handy.

you went to India? to visit Apola
jeez you are stranger than i thought.

don't feel secure, i'm expanding my area so you'd better lock the music away

[Spazz333]

Remind me to start throwing random copies of this in my collection.

LouReed - Metal Machine Music

[ScorLibran]

Originally posted by spaceplay
I enter people's houses at night, take their cd's and rip them, bring them back and leave again.

Ah, that explains why I found my Pink Floyd collection all mixed up last week.



My music collection includes no MP3s, and I hate transcoding from lossy-to-lossless. That combined with the incidence of encoding errors being generally too high for....*ahem*..."remote archival from other sources* ( ), means I buy all the music I want that can be found on Amazon.com from there, and the rest (usually bootlegs or rarities) on eBay or from other auctions/stores.

I pay between $0.01 and $2.00 per CD, plus $0.50 or so for shipping. Then I rip them all to FLAC. I'm currently at 8686 tracks, taking 206GB of HD volume.

[Mattress]

Scor, how do you get such a great deal from amazon?

[ScorLibran]

Used CDs. Independent sellers using Amazon's online store. Instead of clicking the "add to shopping cart" button, select "used & new from...".

Only when I go looking for something very specific do I pay more, and then I can usually still get a CD for well under $5. There are also independents out there selling brand new CDs a lot cheaper than the regular (Amazon) price. That list can be found via the same link ("used & new from").

But just surf through selections from artists you like, and you'll see more than a few CDs for one penny ($0.01). The ones sold for that price are just overstocks of albums that have little or no demand, and to the seller the space used to store them is worth more than the items themselves.

I added up the amount I spent and the number of CDs I got over the past year, and the average was under $2 each, including shipping.

[Mattress]

hmm, most of the stuff I looked up was still over 10 bucks for "used & new from..." not including shipping.
What kind of stuff are you generally looking for?

[JBB83]

I use rhapsody to stream my music most of the time. It's just cheaper that way not to mention the audio quality is much better than most downloadable mp3s. I'm a bit of an audiophile so regular mp3 compression really grates at my nerves.

[Cylob]

MP3 compression's better than sliced bread.

[Mattress]

I never cared for sliced bread compression.

[Cylob]

Allegedly, it's the best invention of all time (better even than the wheel and the alphabet).

If this is the case, why isn't sliced bread a wonder in Civ 2?

[Drogba]

i would use www.as************

[Rullingen]

Originally posted by spaceplay
I enter people's houses at night, take their cd's and rip them, bring them back and leave again.

I do that, only they are usually my friends and they usually know im there too.