How many iTunes songs do you have?

[brtspears2]

3, all of them were free.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Cerb
0. I use this, this, and this.
Why pay the cost of the CD for a lossy encode with DRM and little to no archival capability? If you are going to pay for lossy music, at least use allofmp3 and screw the RIAA.

u mean screw the artist and the riaa

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Cerb
0. I use this, this, and this.
Why pay the cost of the CD for a lossy encode with DRM and little to no archival capability? If you are going to pay for lossy music, at least use allofmp3 and screw the RIAA.

u mean screw the artist and the riaa

Unfortunately, yes.
That's why there are concerts.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Cerb
0. I use this, this, and this.
Why pay the cost of the CD for a lossy encode with DRM and little to no archival capability? If you are going to pay for lossy music, at least use allofmp3 and screw the RIAA.

u mean screw the artist and the riaa

As opposed to being screwed by the artist and record companies by being forced to buy a $15 CD for one song for about 20 years now...

When you look at what's actually going on, all this is forcing the artists to release a good CD. I'll buy a CD if the whole thing is good... I won't buy one for just one song though, that's retarded. Throwing in a bonus DVD with some live stuff and interviews is also an incentive to buy the CD.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Cerb
0. I use this, this, and this.
Why pay the cost of the CD for a lossy encode with DRM and little to no archival capability? If you are going to pay for lossy music, at least use allofmp3 and screw the RIAA.

u mean screw the artist and the riaa

As opposed to being screwed by the artist and record companies by being forced to buy a $15 CD for one song for about 20 years now...

When you look at what's actually going on, all this is forcing the artists to release a good CD. I'll buy a CD if the whole thing is good... I won't buy one for just one song though, that's retarded. Throwing in a bonus DVD with some live stuff and interviews is also an incentive to buy the CD.

Why buy anything if it isn't good on the whole? Personally, I find that idiotic. Then again, I listen to albums.
If I want to listen to Stand Up, I start at A New Yesterday and listen. If I want to hear Days of Future Past, I go to THE DAY BEGINS and play until THE NIGHT is over.
I don't have anything on my playlist that isn't at least an entire disc (not counting a lack of bonus tracks on a few). Singles are, were, and still are, a rip-off. Until <$1 gets a losslessly encoded single, it will remain a rip-off.

 

[Staples]

58 and none of them were Pepsi freebies.

 

[Confused]

None at all.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
None... I don't have iTunes. I won't buy music online until they deliver it in a compression format that's not lossy.

 

[Leetman]

73.

 

[lizardboy]

zero - only "paid" service i use is allofmp3

 

[caivoma]

5

 

[FuZoR]

5? free downloads or i won from those pepsi caps

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Cerb
0. I use this, this, and this.
Why pay the cost of the CD for a lossy encode with DRM and little to no archival capability? If you are going to pay for lossy music, at least use allofmp3 and screw the RIAA.

u mean screw the artist and the riaa

Artists generally make ~5% a cd. Only big names like, for instance, Metallica, make more than that - which explains why they're so outspokenly against downloading mp3s. Other artists have to do concerts if they want any money. That's doing it the RIAA's way - if they don't, they get no radio/MTV play.