MP3.. do you buy them or…
I buy I guess 95% of my mp3s at different shops (because of availability or price)
what do you guys do?
do you buy them or download them elsewhere like via usenet, soulseek etc?
I buy from juno/beatport, i rip from cd’s and i download some from blogs.
But i stick to 320kbs from blogs. ok sometimes 256, but getting them from other places you can’t really count on the quality. Sometimes they say 320 but they’ve been ripped from a cd that was burnt from an original file of 192…
I noticed that too..
If I keep a 192 it must be a very rare record otherwise I just throw it in the bin.
I buy from Beatport or Spotify (7digital). Try to stick to 320k if possible. If the tunes are restricted I use TPB or other services…
tpb?
spotify: not available in my country! 
Please buy them… 
There are plenty of sites that have different prices for the same track. Sometimes Itunes is the chepest
Pirating is not good for anyone present in this forum… people need to get pay for making music if not this game is no fun.
Dont want to be an ass but if here is a list of legal sotres to buy music, I am sure you will find one you like 
24/7 Musicshop www.247ms.com
7Digital www.7digital.com
Amazon.com www.amazon.com
Amazon Disc on Demand
AOL http://musik.aol.de/
Arvato Mobile www.arvato-mobile.de
Aspiro www.aspiro.com
Association La Médiathèque www.lamediatheque.be
Audiojelly www.audiojelly.com
Basepoint Media www.basepointmedia.com
Beatport www.beatport.com
Beats Digital www.beatsdigital.com
Cellfish www.cellfish.fr
Dancefuel Records www.dancefuel-records.com
danceMusicHub www.dancemuischub.com
Decoder Muzique www.decodermuzique.com
Deezer www.deezer.com
Digital Tunes www.digital-tunes.com
DJ Download www.djdownload.com
DJ Shop www.djshop.de
DJ Tunes www.djtunes.com
DJMR www.djmrmusicdownload.com
Dream on Korea http://dreamonr.com
Elle Media/Espresso www.deejay.it
emusic www.emusic.com
FNAC www.fnac.com
Global Groove www.globalgroovedigital.com
Ibiza Dance Club www.ibizadanceclub.com
ID&T Dance-Tunes.com www.dance-tunes.com
iMusic IT www.imusic.it
InnDigital www.inndigital.com
InProdicon www.inprodicon.com
iPlay www.iplay.pl
iTunes iTunes - Apple (DE)
LimeWire Store Jamba! / FoxMobile www.jamba.de
Advanced Search Go Jazz en ligne / Digimus www.jazzenligne.com
Jiwa www.jiwa.fm
Juno Download www.juno.co.uk
Justaloud www.justaloud.com
Last.fm www.last.fm
Limewire www.limewire.com
MediaNet www.medianet.com
Messagerie Digitali www.messageriedigitali.it
Mobivillage www.mobivillage.com
MP3.de www.mp3.de
Museeker www.museeker.com
MusicIsHere www.musicishere.com
MusicLoad www.musicload.de
Music me www.musicme.com
Musicstar www.musicstar.de
Musiwave www.musiwave.com
Myxer www.myxer.com
Napster www.napster.com/
Nokia Music Store www..nokia.com
One Italia www.oneitalia.it
Orange www.orange.com
QOBUZ www.qobuz.com
Pocket Group www.pocketgroup.co.uk
Puretracks www.puretracks.com
Realnetworks www.realnetworks.com
Real / Rhapsody Napster | The Next Chapter in Music & Digital Experiences
Resonantvibes www.resonantvibes.com
SFR musique.sfr.fr
Shazam www.shazam.com
spotify www.spotify.com
Starzik www.starzik.com
steereo www.steereo.de
Stompy www.stompy.com
Telecom Italia www.telecomitalia.it
Telefonica www.telefonica.es
Trackingspain www.trackingspain.com
Trackitdown www.trackitdown.net
TrackTracker www.tracktracker.com
Tradebit www.tradebit.com
Tralalère www.ouaps.fr
TranceLoad www.tranceload.com
Traxsource www.traxsource.com
Vidzone www.vidzone.tv
VirginMega www.virginmega.fr
Vivendi Mobile Entertainment www.vivendi.com
Vodafone Live www.vodafonelive.de
Wasabeat www.wasabeat.jp
We7 www.we7.com
Word & Sound www.playwordandsound.com
You-Load www.you-load.com
Zune www.zune.net
WOW, what a list of stores, I need to bookmark this thread
good work alien2k!
how good have we got it now.£2 at most for a track that you can own instantly.10 years ago i would pay at least £7 per record and wait 5 days for it.whats the reason for the 5% you don’t buy then.i’m not judging just curious as to why you started this thread(although i’m glad u did as thats a monster list provided by alien2k
major props)
Buy 95% of them (the others are given to me )
The only time I’ll torrent them, is if I picked them up legitimately from somewhere like emusic (which uses fairly crap encoding - fine for an iPod, not fine for a decent system) and I like it enough to play it out, I’ll acquire a higher bitrate version - I figure I own a ‘license’ for the tune, the artist has been paid, and I’ve got a better quality version.
I actually have spun emusic tracks on some awesome systems and they sound mint. Might need to be a little louder, but I never lose anything. They are usually encoded around 200kb/s VBR. It’s not as good as 320, but not total shit, at least for me.
I don’t pay for anything, music, software, films, I even steal the bandwith from my neighbours, everything is free! I love bittorrent!
I try before I buy. Download tracks on what.cd and buy from junodownload or beatport if i like the tracks. Otherwise they are deleted..
Just out of interest if i own a shed load of vinyls that i want to digitalize. Where do i stand downloading ripped copies from the net? If I was to be reported by my ISP then investigated would i get done?
good post, I thought I knew them all but I seem to have missed a few ..dozen 
IMHO you’re free to download an illegal copy.
Why bother converting them if someone else did it for you
My thoughts exactly but then you hear of all these people getting court summons from people just monitoring the fact that you are downloading copyright material.
There are so many sites and forums that just put up music links for leechers, they even leech between themselves. In my opinion finally what you are doing is filling the wrong people pockets. People that earn per click advertisements stealing efforts from others, and ultimately dont give a dime for the cost or time spent on that piece of music. Ultimatley the money goes to another industry that has nothing to do with arts or music…
If you consider yourself that you want to give something back and ultimately make the industry grow… why not spend a couple of $ on it
cus i already did by buying the vinyl… or is that not aimed at me?
Sorry man, not pointing anyone.
I do agree with your point, cause you once bought the music, nothing bad there.
Truth is that if you own a vinyl and download a cd rip you’re still a wrongdoer..
Also, torrents upload automatically. Blogs or rapidshares would be legit if you own the cd.
In the Netherlands there is no law prohibiting the downloading of music, only uploading.