To be honest I'd never considered that when I buy a 2nd hand LP/CD I'm not giving any royalties to the artist so this is an interesting point. Like an earlier poster said though you're often helping keep a 2nd hand record store in business, which in itself is great for music and therefore artists.
The whole "downloading damages the record industry" thing is a nonsense anyway. I've read enough reports now that back up my own instinct, namely that music lovers generally still spend the same as they did pre-torrents but continue to consume beyond that amount for free. This extra consumption thus fuels the "habit" and those acts become part of future spending, whether that be the next LP, a gig, T-shirt, whatever. The only people who now purely leech off torrents are those who spent next to bugger all in the first place anyway. Slightly off-topic there, admittedly.
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