Music - How do you get yours?

[Aulayna]

Are you an iTunes addict, a YouTube junkie, a Spotify binger, a Last FM hipster, a fogey still attached to the TV, a CD buyer or do you acquire it via other... "means?"

[qwertysaur]

:shifty: :bigsmile:

[Pheesh]

It's 2013. Surely we can't still have to be afraid of publicly saying that we acquire our music from tor... *dragged away by authorities*

[NeoCracker]

I buy CD's when I can. Otherwise Youtube and Pandora. :p

[blackmage_nuke]

I just Youtube a song whenever I want to listen to it. I dont tend to listen to music when im out and about anymore

[Bunny]

Pandora, Spotify, or nefarious methods.

[Rostum]

Youtube or torrents.

[Wolf Kanno]

Youtube, TV and friends when I'm trying to find new music to listen to but actually acquiring varies. I'm still an old fogey and like collecting CDs though, even if I just turn around and put them on my iPod.

[The Man]

I like vinyl rips and correcting for mastering flaws (due to the fact that the loudness war is basically the worst thing to happen to music since MTV), so I rarely listen to internet radio. If I have money and the material is released on a record label that isn't notorious for screwing its acts and/or customers (so in other words, not an RIAA label or Century Media) then I'll buy it on vinyl (if available; otherwise I'll sometimes buy CDs or tapes). If not then... *cough*

That said, I do love last.fm for other reasons besides its internet radio functionality.

[Pike]

I don't acquire new music very frequently. A lot of what I listen to is stuff that I have had for years.

YouTube for things I don't listen to terribly often.
Amazon for things I really like.
Grooveshark for finding new stuff. It's probably not as good as other similar sites but whatever, it works.

[Shorty]

YouTube for stuff I want to try out. Last.fm stations for new pleasant surprises that I otherwise would have not listened to. Torrenting for everything that I actually want.

I refuse to spend money on music with a few exceptions - a) I purchased The Cinnamon Band's Buena Vista EP and Swim by Whispertown 2000 because I was literally unable to acquire these albums by any other means and b) I would like to invest heavily in a vinyl collection once I can acquire a record player. I had a pretty modern one but the speed was all messed up and instead of messing with it I just tossed it because I was moving and didn't want to deal with it at the time.

[Old Manus]

>2013
>storing music locally
>constanza.ram


Spotify is only a fiver a month and has introduced me to more music than a lifetime of speculatively buying music you haven't heard.

[The Man]

>2013
>only listening to lossy music files
>ishygddt

for that matter:

>2013
>not actually marking greentext as green
>ishygddt

[krissy]

hypem, music blogs, last.fm, facebook links from friends.
is the question about how you find NEW music to listen to, or how you get music you WANT to listen to? because most people mentioning torrents seem to think it's the second, and most people talking about spotify seem to think it's the first.

also you guys when will spotify work in canda?

[The Man]

New music I mostly get through recommendations from friends. Which I usually acquire illegally first, then buy if I enjoy it and can afford it, because I am picky about sound quality and want FLAC (which I usually then go on to remaster because most modern recordings are mastered just abysmally) :monster:

[Madame Adequate]

YouTube mostly.

[Breine]

I like actually owning stuff and having it physically, meaning I buy CDs and LPs. However, I also started using Spotify quite a bit for checking things out and such, and of course I use Youtube too.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I pirate the shit out of my music.

[magewarrior]

Usually I just buy music off of iTunes ("if" they have it) otherwise I download it from file sharing websites (of course its mostly for rare songs that I can't find anywhere else ie video game and anime music) but most of the time I just listen to stuff off of YouTube. As for listening to music (randomly) I use apps like AccuRadio and Jango for that.

[Rantz]

Trying out recommendations: Youtube, Spotify
Discovering new stuff: Last.fm, Youtube, Spotify, We are hunted (http://wearehunted.com), Radio Paradise (http://www.radioparadise.com)
Stuff I actually want to listen to: Torrents, Spotify, occasionally Youtube

[Jinx]

PIRATEBAY.SE AHOY MATEYS

[escobert]

I pirate the shit out of my music.

[Laddy]

I use Youtube and other such means. I will buy a CD for bands I particularly enjoy and desire to support, especially if they aren't commercially successful.

I don't pirate. I'm not against it, but if it's an artist I love I want to support them.

/goodytwoshoes

[Loony BoB]

Music TV channels (we have quite a number of them), YouTube, Torrents. I have however purchased one album in the past couple of years (Ed Sheeran's + off Amazon) because it was one of those rare things when I actually like every song on the album.

[Denmark]

youtube if i want to just listen to a single specific song because immediacy. i keep most of my music on my external hard drive which i don't keep connected to my laptop all the time. i have a subset of that collection copied to my laptop which is "stuff i've wanted to listen to recently". if i want to acquire larger, more permanent amounts of music, ahoy mateys

[Jowy]

soulseek and torrents!

[themagicroundabout]

Blogspots and Youtube mostly for browsing and finding new music, but also diggin through vinyl in charity shops and markets is always interesting, because you never know what's going to turn up and I still buy CDs. I tend to buy physical copies of albums I enjoy when I can afford it for the sake of having a physical collection, I guess.

[Araciel]

torrents, youtube mp3, i'll buy cds of the ones I really dig

and then concerts!

[Shiny]

I discover music through YouTube, soundcloud, Pandora, spotfiy, mix CD's (yeah people still do this), and Turntable FM mostly. I don't know what I'd do if people didn't keep recommending stuff as I get bored of music that's old to me pretty quick hence why I hate the radio, but I still tolerate it.

[gaycritchfield]

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[Citizen Bleys]

Theft.

[Shoeberto]

All y'all who work full-time jobs with expendable income and don't support your artists should eat a dick.

Amazon MP3, because it's seriously cheap, their cloud service is great, and there's no DRM. I bought 5 CDs last week for around $15, all of which were by artists I really like or really have been wanting to check out for some time. It got beamed straight to my phone and I can listen to it on any machine I go to through their cloud service.

I think the sound quality is pretty great but I'm only a mid-level audiophile (snob); I know shit compression but I couldn't tell you the difference between stuff 320kbps and up. Amazon has consistently delivered though.

[Pike]

Amazon MP3, because it's seriously cheap, their cloud service is great, and there's no DRM.

Amazon is seriously great for MP3s. I am glad someone else recognizes this. *high five*

[The Man]

I won't accept anything less than FLAC, although this is mostly because most records have troutty mastering and I remaster them. I can't tell a difference between well-encoded 320kbps (i.e. no cutoff at 16.5 kHz like old mp3 encoding would do) and FLAC, but I can tell a difference between music that has been lossy encoded twice and music that has been lossy encoded once. Also 320kbps uses up way too much space on my iPod.

[Pike]

Man, I don't know how you guys do it

Like on a good day I can maybe tell the difference between an actual song and people yelling into tin cans

[Clo]

I suck the music out of the artists themselves and leave them in their beds, shriveled up.

[Shoden]

I use Spotify and youtube for most of my means, if I cannot find anything on there I errr... either *yarrrrr* or actually buy the album. If its cheap.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I suck the music out of the artists themselves and leave them in their beds, shriveled up.

I'm not sure I want to meet you anymore...

[Clo]

I suck the music out of the artists themselves and leave them in their beds, shriveled up.

I'm not sure I want to meet you anymore...

:kaocry:

[NorthernChaosGod]

I suck the music out of the artists themselves and leave them in their beds, shriveled up.

I'm not sure I want to meet you anymore...

:kaocry:

I don't want to be left in my bed all shriveled up. :colbert:

[Old Manus]

41471

[TrollHunter]

Bandcamp, or i use cds/torrents if i lost a cd
Edit: i dont torrent music i dont have because pirating personally bugs me. I like to support the artists i listen to, i couldnt care less if others do so though.

[Pheesh]

All y'all who work full-time jobs with expendable income and don't support your artists should eat a dick.

Relevant (http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2342817%3ABlogPost%3A548508&commentId=2342817%3AComment%3A550233&xg_source=activity)

I get that buying an album is better than not, because that is still some money for the artist. But sales from the actual music have not been a proper income for the artists for a long, long time. Like you yourself said, you just bought 5 albums at 3 dollars a piece, factor in the cut taken out by whoever the song/album is sold through, and that most of these bands owe a lot of money to record companies/labels, so that album sale is not going to go a very long way, if anywhere.

All the semi-popular or underground bands I like will tour constantly and make and distribute their own merch, buying a ticket to a show and a t-shirt will be a lot more helpful than buying 10 of their albums.