[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by the I know, but in this instance, choice may not be a good thing, that's my point. I know it isn't for me! I hear a new song, sounds good, so I look it up on iTunes, listen to the 30 second blurbs of the other 9 songs on the album, think "ahh, not worth $10, when I can buy the one song for $1."

For me the music started to be ruined when Sony came out with the walkman, diskman et al. Plugging the earphones in your ears and making yourself deaf at an early age will doom the hearing of many of our generation at an early age. Sorry but when you are sitting 5 feet away from someone and you can hear the music coming from the phones plugged in their ears, think about what its like for their ear drum. I like to feel the music and that takes speakers moving air around.

That said, I do something illegal at times when testing music. I travel for a living and use a sharing program to download individual songs from the internet to my laptop from the hotel room. If the song is good and I listen to it often then I will buy it, otherwise I try it then its deleted.

Have as well downloaded entire albums but 99% of them are ones that I have purchased years ago that went missing or no good now. I paid the commission that the band/recording label etc demanded one time, and am not going to pay it a second time. Purchased at least 5 copies of albums like Dark Side of the Moon until doing this...