How Do You Get Your Music?
 

What the title says. I'm really curious to see how different members of the site obtain their music.

Do you search blogs? Are you a torrent pro? Are you a usenet user? Do you prefer to buy all or most of your albums? Are you a member of the scene?

Me personally, I probably obtain the majority of my music through torrenting and the searching blogs.

google -> artist + album name + mediafire/megaupload/rapidshare -> download

works every time

This, not failed me yet.

isohunt.com

Torrenting seems to work a lot quicker for me, and you can download entire discographies pretty easily.

Other than that i pop into record shops.

This.
And since I DJ at my school I get to rip a ton of CDs from the studio.

MP3's I get from blogs/Internet friends, but all the random vinyl I have I've obtained by being part of the skramz scene I guess. Friends or bands that are friendly usually have hooked me up with their stuff or duplicates of rare/out-of-print stuff.

Limewire, it's fast and easy. I only buy albums that I actually like.

Amazon/half.com/wherehouse.com/ebay.com
Local record shops
Various Internet methods including blogs but mostly a certain P2P. Torrent only when I can't find something elsewhere (don't like sharing and worrying about a ratio).

I don't use blogs/ rapidshare etc often, becasue I'm very picky on the bitrates, I prefer only mp3s with 320 or flac. So, for me, torrents is far easier.

I mostly stopped using blogs also because of the usually unknown bitrate. You can guestimate based on overall file size, but still...I'd rather know for sure before I download it.