I purchased quite a bit of what I have. Some of it was from CDs that mates had and I copied. Some of it is from finding someone who has the music on their computer and allowing me to take whatever I wanted. Some of it’s torrented because like someone else said, I wasn’t about to pay twice for it. Other stuff is from old vinyl, doesn’t sound the greatest after being copied.
i could only read about 2 or 3 pages…I’ve spent alot of cash on music, and still do. Some music is Free (promo), some downloaded, I do hate to admit it…if I cant purchase a track legally, from a legit website I go to the dark side if you know what I mean. 
real djs use grammar phones
right on!
same here, only time i consider it to be ‘acceptable’, if you get what i mean?
lol @ the “death of music”
music has been around since cavemen starting beating rocks against things… the advent of the ‘music industry’ is a relatively new thing. The notion of making money from music is also a relatively new thing as well (historically speaking). Music will be around forever, bullshit companies that make a load of money out of artists who don’t get paid shit, won’t.
Having said that, I usually make a reasonable effort to buy a tune I like from an online mp3 store. If I can’t find it within 10 minutes or so, I’ll have a look on a torrent site.
I intend to buy all the music I play out at clubs. With that said I must admit that about 5% of the music in my collection is pirated - soley because I can’t find it anywhere online or that it’s country restricted so that I can’t buy it.
grammar phone + vestax pmc = supreme scratch
sweeeet 
Hahahaha, well you’re all breaking the law, I think it plainly states on the back of any cd or vinyl that “unauthorised public performance is prohibited”, but yeah anyway buy your tunes and don’t be a cheap c#*t, pretty much if your getting payed to play you gotta pay to play.
Not if the Venue has a license to play music (in UK anyway).
PRS License permits DJs to play copyrighted music.
forgive me if i’m wrong, but isn’t that in some way covered by the clubs licence?
edit; oops, didn’t go to next page and see karlos post
But we were on the same page mentally mate
Interesting debate goin on here, up to 2 years ago, I could also have boasted that 100% of my collection was infact “legal”. But various factors in Greece have basically forced me, and I’ll explain what I mean, to go illegit in some respects.
- Most of the record Shops (Vinyl) dont bring the good stuff just most of the mainstream shit that plays on the radio. A lot of the record shops I used to buy from have closed down or stopped dealing in my kind of music, whichputs a big damper on things.
- Beatport and their rather unacceptable territorial restrictions, where tracks you want to get your hands on arent allowed in your country until theyve been completely milked by radion stations and cheap radio friendly Jocks who mysteriously obtain the tracks.
I dont own a credit card (much to my relief lately) which makes it difficult to get records from outside greece. So I resort to the most obvious method/tactic get that release from somewhere and buy it on vinyl at the first opportunity. It’s something that leaves me feeling dirty, and I dont like it at all, but between making it damn hard to get tracks locally and online and the extortionate prices (sometimes dollar to euro conversion by changing the symbol) its one of the few choices I have. It’s hard enough to keep my software legit, and many of my mates and co workers think I’m a sucker for shelling out whenever I can. Bottom line, I’m not by any means legit (25-30% of my collection i have yet to obtain legally) but hell I’m not taking it lying down, so to all the producers on the forum, I may have a few of your tracks I havent paid for YET, but thats mainly because they more often than not dont make it here, I will be getting the releases as soon as I can though… thats my two cents. Maybe the labels and online retailers should make it a little easier to buy their wares??? not necessarily price but availability would be nice. Beatport I’m, looking right at you