i download my music because i dont have the funds and i dont have a music store close enough to my house for it to be worth going out of my way to get a cd, instead i download full albums, burn them on a blank disc and bring them to my car. however i do find that i enjoy listening to an album more if i purchase it, something about having a case and a bit of artwork on the cd makes it more of an experience when it enters my stereo.

I won't pay for something I can't physically hold in my hand.
80% of my music collection is MP3, but that's only because of a lack of money.
If I have money, I like the album, and It's availiable on anything except MP3, I'll buy it.

Also this way, I'm not paying crap bands for their crap music. :D

How far away is your local record store? the Manchester market street from me is 10 miles away, bit of a pain, wish there was one a walk away.

there is an hmv reasonably close, maybe a ten min drive from me but i dont really like shopping their. id much prefer to by my music from a used record store but the only good one is maybe 15 - 20 mins away.

i like to think that i pay back the musicians by attending every concert that comes to town if i have an album, live is the best way to hear a band right? cept there is rarely a good band playing at a good venue, half the time a good band will come to town and they will be playing in some big open place with terrible acoustics so you just hear blaring distortion for half the time.

15-20 minute drive?

Takes 40 minutes to get to HMV from my house.

How come you prefer used record stores? I prefer HMV because I know I'm gonna get what I want there. And I don't know of any record stores close by :(

Least you're not a total music sponge just downloading, if you go to the concerts then at least you're giving something back :)

i can agree with CunningStunt about getting cds instead of singles. in my experience, i've enjoyed more the songs on an artist's album more than the singles that made me get it in the first place. people who only have the singles are missing out, imo.

I have a plan, involving rohypnol, a clown costume and a large knife.

To exterminate these singletons.

PM me for details xx

But in seriousness, they are missing out big time. I know a girl who is a Kings Of Leon "fan" because of Sex On Fire and Use Somebody. I told her to fuck off and come back when she's had a listen to Aha Shake Heartbreak. Such an annoying thing, people who listen to the charts and call themselves fans despite not buying albums going to gigs, hell, even hearing a 5th or 6th song off of the artists album.

I always buy the actual CD. It's alot better.

All i've seen you do since you've been here is bitch & whine about 'real fans' and it's getting really old.

So she's not heard the bands entire discography or been to gigs. Big ****ing deal, she obviously likes them based on what she's heard so she has every right to call herself a fan. She might go off them or she might get more into them, there's nothing wrong with that either that's how things work.

If you had made that kind of comment to me I would have bought that album, came & found you, then inserted it nice & deep into your anus.

Tape, CD, Vinyl?