Why be a DJ???

[quirkysilva]

MP3 files on Beatport are pretty cheap. You don't need 3000 tracks, find 50 or 100 that you like and sound good and build from that.

^^ QFT. I recently deleted several thousands tracks to keep only around 100 per genre I mix.. and my mixes now mean so much more and are actually faster to make since you don't have fillers and shitty tracks laying around.

[dafe]

tl;dr

Discussing copyright semantics is great. Supporting artists who enrich our lives is better.

[calgarc]

the same reason why people want to go to ibiza... there's nothing quite like it

your playing music. and if your good you getting paid to do so imagine you boss saying, yeah i need you to play this cd back to your friends, i need the report on my desk by tuesday hahaha

[drmore]

Pussy

[djproben]

There are plenty of free sources of music that are not infringing any copyrights. Check http://rcrdlbl.com, http://archive.org, http://ektoplazm.com, http://ghettofunk.co.uk, http://jamendo.com, http://ccmixter.org as well as http://soundcloud.com. Get on some promotional lists and twitter lists where artists send out free download links. If you use Serato, join http://whitelabel.net for free copies of all your pop favorites (but be careful with these; if you don't use Serato they will sound like ass in any other player). Get free sound samples from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples and get really crazy stuff on http://ubuweb.com