Download the discography to see what I want to buy, then delete it all and replace it with legally purchased copies of the songs/albums I liked.

Try telling that to a record exec, though. Onerous Massive Family Gathering YOU DIRTY PIRATE!!

HA! I was actually talking about this at work today. I'll buy the standard CD for my favorite artists, and picked up a few $6 CDs on BF, but I still trawl the seed underbelly...of the internet...for the unreleased/unavailable-to-me stuff. Deluxe Edition CD with two extra tracks only released in Japan? TV-rip of an unplugged set? Must. Have. On. iPod.

Also, "Buy up... bootlegs"? I's confused.

Two options are missing.

[] Pirate all their music from P2P file sharing programs.
[x] Pirate all their music, find the tracks you like, then buy just those tracks

One of my friends posted a link to a Steam Powered Giraffe song on Youtube(It was Honeybee)... I then listened to their other stuff on Youtube and bought both their albums from their online store the next day.

E) Set up a Pandora station with the band/song as a seed to see what else pops up I like.

Download the tracks I like and add them to my ever-expanding library of illegal music

I just download everything. Then if I like the band 5+ songs over 2 albums I will purchase physical CDs.

Listen to the full album on streaming (legal) sites and then decide if I want to buy the full album. Then repeat with other albums by same artist.

Most of the time I only buy the singles unless I really like them. Justin Bieber ftw! (kidding!!!)

These days.... listen to it on the radio for a couple of weeks until they hype is over. Current music is disposable... I haven't seen a need to own a copy of any CD produced by any band in the past decade.

e.) Find the band on Spotify and listen until I am sick of it. They get some miniscule amount of money, and I don't have to clutter my shelf, drawer, car, hard drive, phone with stuff that I'll have to figure out how to clean up later.

Yet another option:

Ignore it completely out of contempt for the corrupt music industry.

awfulfalafel wrote:Yet another option:

Ignore it completely out of contempt for the corrupt music industry.

I respect that. But there are unsigned artists who feel the same way, what about them?

boomn4x4 wrote:These days.... listen to it on the radio for a couple of weeks until they hype is over. Current music is disposable... I haven't seen a need to own a copy of any CD produced by any band in the past decade.

Just looked at my MP3 collection and I think the last decade is pretty generous. I dont think I have anything that was recorded since the late 80s.

I must be getting old. My car radio is stuck on NPR. OK, maybe I am not old, maybe modern music just stinks. Hey, Record execs, ever think that your sales are down because you keep pushing fluff bands on us? hmmmm?