Bit-torrent. (Vuze, specifically)

I know, it's illegal.

I know, the record labels don't get my money.

I know the millionaire musicians I download don't get my $3

I download thousands of songs a day and fill external hard drives.

Eventually it'll be impossible to do, and I better have every song by then...

Once I have a 5 figure income, I might consider buying the albums I really like, but doubt it.

Flame on... :)

 

 Amy! Be sure to let us know when the server logs are demanded by RIAA during Discovery.

Thanks for all the great suggestions.  Lots of suggestions for Amazon.  It would seem the good prices here would be for the used CDs.  Any issues with buying used?  I'm one of those that tries to preserve my CDs like they are LPs -- hold 'em by the edges, don't touch them anywhere else, so they are as new with no scratched or even fingerprints.

I've never had any sound quality issues with the CDs I have received from BMG or Columbia House.  Actually, I've had more than a few where the sound quality was outstanding.  CDs are just ones and zeros right? 

 Amazon is a excellent source for CDs and I've certainly bought my fair share.   Same with Half.com.

I've found that most of the used CDs that I've managed to get have nearly always been in excellent shape and played just fine in my system.

There used to be a record store called Stangeland Records that specialized in the music that I like to listen to, but alas, they went out of business last spring.  Royally sucks.

Other places where I've gotten CD, since these also specialize in my chosen genre of music:

Nightmare Records

CD Inzane

The Laser's Edge

ProgRock Records

These are a few of what I use to source my music.   Of course, I've actually had pretty good luck in finding some of the music that I listen in good ol' Best Buy.

As for downloaded music, yeah, I know about all the talk about "low quality" and all that other .  But there is no denying that I like the convience of it (i.e., not having to wait for a CD to arrive in the mail and such).   For that I've been using eMusic for a number of years and just recently started using LaLa.com.  I've also, on occasion, have use the Amazon MP3 store.    I've found that I really like something that I have downloaded, I'll attempt to get a copy of the actual CD whenever possible.  However, some of this that I listen to has never been released in the US and/or is out of print, thus very expensive or hard to get any other way other than via download.

 I don't buy CDs anymore I buy music downloads and the best place I have found for high quality music downloads (better than CD quality) is Music Giants 

http://www.musicgiants.com

Music Giants can also be found within WMP's online stores which is how I normally go there.

 

Rich_Guy:

 I don't buy CDs anymore I buy music downloads and the best place I have found for high quality music downloads (better than CD quality) is Music Giants 

http://www.musicgiants.com

Music Giants can also be found within WMP's online stores which is how I normally go there.

Unfortunatly, Music Giants is a non-starter for me.  I don't care for thier choice of using DRM'd WMP formatted files.  For example, I just tried to go on there to check it out, but of course, it kevetched about me going on there with my MacBook Pro  (thus, I won't even try with my Ubuntu rig either). 

Yeah, I bet the quality is really nice, but I just refuse to deal with any DRM'ed formats or formats that won't work cross platform (I have Mac, Linux, and Windows machines in this house and I want to be able to access my music from any of them).

JMON:

...CDs are just ones and zeros right?  ...

Yeah, I think that there is a mystique about 1s and 0s on CDs and DVDs that sometimes crops up around these parts, but not for me.  Amazon used CDs, SACDs and DVD-As work for me, and I've never had a problem other than once getting the wrong CD in the right jewel case. Sometimes the seller sends the disk by slow pony and it takes more than a calender week to receive it, but the price is right.

Chris

 Garage sales

How about here?

http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/t/122322.aspx

 

rplace:

How about here? http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/t/122322.aspx 

I'm probably a bit older than you are...but the price is right.

 

Chris

Second Spin for small lots. Craigslist for large lots. I'll buy large pieces of someones collection from Craigslist. I just bought 300 of a 1500 collection for $1 each.

I've had pretty good luck (but not perfect) with my local library. It also has the highest circulation in the country....which is nice. I just borrow, copy and return them.

 NOW, before anyone starts any flamig about that practice, think about this: the whole argument is centered around the artists not getting their money from the copies made and I agree. But, also, they don't get any money either every time someone borrows a disc from the library and returns it after they're done. I'm just saving a lot of gas by not having to go back and borrow the same disc every time I want to listen to it.

I guess in the long run, ultimately an artist (or owner of the copyrights) would have to give their consent before a recording is donated to a library (man, don't give the IRAA any ideas....)