Do you listen to leaked albums?
 

????

...Uh, yeah, isn't that why I continue to pay for an internet connection every month?

abso-fucking-lutely

Pretty much the only albums I do listen to these days.

It depends on the quality of the leak. I won't bother with it if it isn't at least a proper v0 rip.

a huh?

yes unless its Sonic Youth...

I never do. There have only been a small small small handful that I have in the past. But I dont like it.

yes ma'am

I fail to see how that makes any difference though. I can't tell the difference between 256kbps and FLAC, I honestly can't.

"no"

if it's a band you like, yr only hurting them by taking part in this.

if it's a band you don't like, why bother?

Nope
There's already a ton of music released every day, so there's plenty of things to listen to. I like to wait until the date the artist (or label, okay) intended for the music to be heard well, to hear it.

No. There's only one band in existence that I care enough about to get their records in the year it's released. I find it very difficult to keep tabs on mp3s. I'm an old man, with frail fingers. Every click could be my last.

NO.

For the most part, yeah.

BUT...I did wait until Tool's "10,000 Days" and Pearl Jam's self titled came out, but that was because they both dropped on my birthday, and I wanted something to look forward to on my birthday.

Yes, I do, but I always purchase the album once it is released.

That is, of course, if I like the leak. I don't have the money to buy music that I might like.

+1 exactly

why aye

Absosutely not, for the same reasons as I don't download. Namely, in addition to various ethical concerns, that I seem to be incapable of forming anywhere near as strong a relationship with a bunch of files on my computer as I do with, say, a vinyl. The experience of tracking an album down in shops (especillay on release day), buying it, taking it home, unwrapping it, absorbing the cover art, and putting on my stereo for the first time is big part of the process whereby I bond with music, and always has been. A low quality rip of an album that's coming out in a month will just never give me that.

There's also the fact that not downloading music is the only way I can possibly ensure that I actually get to be familiar with what I have. I don't have any kind of portable music device, and as a result the number of hours in each day that I can actually spend listening to stuff is quite limited. With the sheer range of stunning music out there already, keeping my listening limited to what I can actually find and buy is my way making sure that I actually listen to what I have. The fact that I paid for it makes me give it the time of day. If I got into downloading, especially stuff that hasn't even come out yet, I would just drown myself in new music that I rarely actually listened to properly, as my brief toe-dips into online music collecting have aptly threatened...

So no.