[Tokolosh]

No, but I will listen to samples first.
I like to get the real thing with cover artwork etc, and anyway, most of the downloads are mp3 which I'm not mad about.

[sonicl]

No. I like to be able to listen to music without having to carry a computer around with me. But like Tokolosh I do listen to samples before buying.

[Norma J]

I'll download songs from bands actual official sites to hear what they're like, sometimes, but very rarely. I only just downloaded, with the help of a fellow boardmember, a program just to download one particular album which was/is out of print and illegal to sell other than secondhand where you pay through the nose. Other than that, no I don't download. I like to hold the actual product and have the full sound that the band intended me to have, aswell as the artwork. There's something about downloading music that just ain't fun for me.

[_slavo_]

I only download stuff that I can't buy - either not available in stores in my country or released on tiny underground labels.

Other than that, I keep trying to be honest and buy whatever is good and available. For example, I don't have a single mp3 by Sonic Youth on my computer containing stuff from regular albums, SYRs etc. Live stuff only.

[terminal pharmacy]

i don't dl legally or legally, not until full covers are supplied at a high res for printing and the music is at minimum cd quality

[nomadicfollower]

Originally Posted by krastian

Speaking of rednecks.....in my hometown in Western Maryland I have seen 4 trucks with the words "GIT 'R DONE" (made out of those shitty letters that you use for mailboxes) on the back window of their truck.....good times.

Maryland's got nothing on Alabama. We've got rednecks who fly the Alabama flag out of the back of their trucks, which by the way have 12 inch lifts, huge tires (it's for the mudding you know), two cans of dip in the dash board , 'I'm a redneck' bumper sticker and a complete disregard for traffic laws.

[krastian]

True, but America is full of rednecks. Hell, look at what Hayden is saying and he lives in Minnesota....you wouldn't think it would be that bad there. Maryland can get pretty ruff too.....I live in Appalachia and a stones throw away across the Potomac is West Virginia....it can get pretty horrible. I won't even get into what these fuckers did after September 11th.