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Old 07-16-2016, 10:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Not gonna pretend like I'm not an entitled asshat. It's far easier, cheaper, and more productive to go on a week-long downloading binge than an hour-long CD store splurge. That's pretty much killed any pretensions of "supporting the artists" that I might once have had. Proud thief.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 07-16-2016, 10:24 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Not gonna pretend like I'm not an entitled asshat. It's far easier, cheaper, and more productive to go on a week-long downloading binge than an hour-long CD store splurge. That's pretty much killed any pretensions of "supporting the artists" that I might once have had. Proud thief.
You see, I'm the same way. I support the bands I listen to by buying t-shirts at the shows I see. I'm going like once a week at this point.
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Old 07-16-2016, 10:37 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Not gonna pretend like I'm not an entitled asshat. It's far easier, cheaper, and more productive to go on a week-long downloading binge than an hour-long CD store splurge. That's pretty much killed any pretensions of "supporting the artists" that I might once have had. Proud thief.
I hyper-rationalize my blatant thievery. I download ~100 album archives every few weeks, but I consider it research material to inspire actual purchases I otherwise never would have made. My bottom-line rationale is that my average spending is $1200 a year on music while the average American spends $57 on physical and digital media annually. I spend more than the next 21 consumers combined.



Based on my spending, I'm not the guy killing the industry.
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That's how I justify stealing so many digital comics. I go to my local comic book shop every single week and drop anywhere from $10-$25, and I would never spend that much if I didn't check out new **** on digital, and I never would have gotten to this point in the first place if I wasn't able to get my toes wet for free.
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Old 07-16-2016, 11:11 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I guess this all makes me an oddball. The only time I steal is when a band re-releases an album with bonus songs and I already have the album. In that situation I will steal the bonus songs.
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Old 07-16-2016, 11:16 AM   #16 (permalink)
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It also helps that I never wonder if the internet is going to have a ****ing CONVERGE album. Any Converge album! I don't care which, just have one, you ****s!
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It also helps that I never wonder if the internet is going to have a ****ing CONVERGE album. Any Converge album! I don't care which, just have one, you ****s!
What are you talking about? I just found all of them.
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Old 07-16-2016, 11:41 AM   #18 (permalink)
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What are you talking about? I just found all of them.
You must go to a better internet than I do.
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What sites do you guys use for downloading files?
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Old 07-16-2016, 11:45 AM   #20 (permalink)
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What sites do you guys use for downloading files?
I generally just Google the name of the artist, name of the album, and then "blogspot". Then I just troll through the links. I'm sure there's a better way but it works for me.
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