well said indeed.
this isnt very djtt friendly. just a bad rant. i buy as much as i can but i also use blogs. does that make me a shitty dj?
side note: most of the indie dance i listen is on blogs. producers/djs will post their tracks on blogs as well as beatport.
There doing something considered socially acceptable, bashing people you don’t know cause your belief of acceptable, i think that’s considered riding a high horse named ignorance.. hahah
I wasnt.
I know what a fallacy is. I know what logical means. I didnt understand what a Logical Fallacy is. Still dont. Doesnt matter.
i dont understand your confusion. http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
agreed
Fallacy, i thought you said fellatio, no matter. Anyway i have about a $10k collection of music in the shelves, 15 years of collecting, but am no saint in regards to mp3’s. I Use creative commons net labels and psyshop mainly these days (brother uses the CD and i do a rip for traktor), as we have a good “base” collection and i just want quality now, not 5000 bits of cheese. Actually over the last month i’ve done a big cleanout and have deleted over 1000 tunes from the collection 
feels goood
As a teenager I probably brought about 5 % of the music I had, I had no money and no real taste. Those HDDs have long since died…
These days I will only pirate something I cant get because of territory restrictions.
If someone gives me a bunch of tunes Ill take them, listen to them and buy what I like, other than that they go in the trash when I clean up my desktop.
as a teenager i bought tapes!
I’ll pirate CDs I can’t find in stores, and I pirate new music all the time. Pirating music is the easiest way to get access to a lot of new songs without much effort.
That being said, I still buy all the music I use to DJ, and any music I especially like even if I don’t DJ with it. If I don’t like it, I delete it.
And @Karlos: I don’t think USDM is on a high horse because he buys music. Hell, I buy music too. However, his stance towards people who download music and his tone does qualify him for “High Horse” status.
I pirate TONS of music. For that reason, the amount of music I own versus how much I’ve acquired otherwise is rather small in comparison.
But I still buy records every week, I’m at my fav. record store every Thursday when they get their shipment. I definitely own more music than the average person, that’s for sure.
Ethically, I don’t have a problem with any of it. Without piracy so many artists or even whole genres wouldn’t be known. I don’t understand why you sound so angry haha, but I still see your point.
not gonna get properly involved in this debate as it will go round in circle, but to answer the question…
of the 583 tracks in my ‘dj library’ there’s only 10 at the most i haven’t paid for, mainly because i couldn’t find them through legit means. then another 20 or so (at most) that i bought on vinyl ages ago (which all got sold a year or so back), and then found via non legit means because i wasn’t gonna pay twice for them. best exmple is the josh wink/public enemy mash-up - literally had to hack it from an embedded player, but i paid £10 for it 5 years ago on vinyl.
as for my media player library, 98% minimum has been paid for. the other 2 again couldn’t be found through proper channels, like the ‘Grey Album’ by dangermouse
Im approaching 2300 downloads on Beatport, and something like 600 on Audio Jelly. I enjoy getting good sound quality rather than shitty vinyl rips/set rips/poor audio quality for free. The rest I get on promo from the radio station I work for.
I Buy.
In the last two years I have spent $500 bucks, between AudioJelly, DjDownloads, and Beatport. More from Audio Jelly and Djdownloads now then beatport. Oh and Territory restrictions suck, but that never made me pirate, just make a friend in the other country, or ask me I have a cousin in Munich, and a old childhood friend in England (If you do ask me be ready for a two week wait)
We get territory restrictions down here. Just use ip hider and you are good. My pc is in eindhoven atm.
the music industry is slowly learning to deal with piracy and P2P, as they know there’s nothing that can be done to stop it. that’s why many record labels are seeking money in music publishing, live shows, merch, etc-- alternative revenue streams
I get all my music really cheap from a DJ pool and never have to steal anything. the one I use in Canada called zipdj is licensed by the AVLA
To the thread poster…you have a few valid points but where do you come off telling who can call themselves a DJ? And I realize that I personally am not exactly a techtools veteran or a regular with all 30 some odd posts but…You have posted 50 respones on DJTT and you think you can rant about your pet peeve to the people who run this site and slander the several probably way more experience and skilled DJs then yourself, and the people who come here often and have come here often for a long time and get good results? Dude thats noobtastic. Mad weak. Again im not one of the guys who would really hold your post count against you as i dont have many either but its not really the number thats important (a number is a number; not saying their like points or anything but,) the number represents how much a part of this community you really are. Basically what’re doing in this sense is COMING INTO SOMEONE ELSES HOUSE AND SHITTING ON THEIR CARPET.
[quote=“usdm, post:1, topic:7278, username:usdm”]
(and while you there learn how to mix ).
[/quote] Lolol who are you talking to?
well ur right it´s not the number that count´s! even if this was just his 1 post he has the right to complain about sumfin…the only mistake he made was a confusing headline and some harsh words…i have over 700 posts…does that actually make me a better dj? nope. i could suck in the booth while that guy with his 50 posts is in business since 1860. and it takes a lot more than the stuff he wrote to make us hippies feel pissed. 
u all can come into our house and shit on our carpet as long it is constructive shit!!! LOVE
I agree, my only point with the posts was to show how it represents that you can’t be a visitor such as myself or him and come in here like you run the damn place. Didn’t mean for it to sound like post war of whos got more golden stars in kindergarten
1860!? nice one panda