How much of the music you have, you actually purchased?

[sm00sh]

Don't blame technology or big businesses for killing scenes, blame people for wanting to experience new things instead of the same old shit day in day out. Blame innovation, Blame creativity, Blame your grandma, Blame your dog - at the end of the day it doesn't matter who foots the bill because it's just part of life pal.

well said indeed.

[BestLegsinHD]

this isnt very djtt friendly. just a bad rant. i buy as much as i can but i also use blogs. does that make me a shitty dj?

side note: most of the indie dance i listen is on blogs. producers/djs will post their tracks on blogs as well as beatport.

[LiveFastStephen]

There doing something considered socially acceptable, bashing people you don't know cause your belief of acceptable, i think that's considered riding a high horse named ignorance.. hahah

[Karlos Santos]

please don't take me to be a grammar snob.

I wasnt.

I know what a fallacy is. I know what logical means. I didnt understand what a Logical Fallacy is. Still dont. Doesnt matter.

[sm00sh]

.I didnt understand what a Logical Fallacy is

i dont understand your confusion. http://www.logicalfallacies.info/

Doesnt matter.

agreed

[Jester]

Fallacy, i thought you said fellatio, no matter. Anyway i have about a $10k collection of music in the shelves, 15 years of collecting, but am no saint in regards to mp3's. I Use creative commons net labels and psyshop mainly these days (brother uses the CD and i do a rip for traktor), as we have a good "base" collection and i just want quality now, not 5000 bits of cheese. Actually over the last month i've done a big cleanout and have deleted over 1000 tunes from the collection feels goood

[midifidler]

As a teenager I probably brought about 5 % of the music I had, I had no money and no real taste. Those HDDs have long since died...

These days I will only pirate something I cant get because of territory restrictions.

If someone gives me a bunch of tunes Ill take them, listen to them and buy what I like, other than that they go in the trash when I clean up my desktop.

[Jester]

as a teenager i bought tapes!

[Segfault]

I'll pirate CDs I can't find in stores, and I pirate new music all the time. Pirating music is the easiest way to get access to a lot of new songs without much effort.

That being said, I still buy all the music I use to DJ, and any music I especially like even if I don't DJ with it. If I don't like it, I delete it.

And @Karlos: I don't think USDM is on a high horse because he buys music. Hell, I buy music too. However, his stance towards people who download music and his tone does qualify him for "High Horse" status.

[miyuru]

I pirate TONS of music. For that reason, the amount of music I own versus how much I've acquired otherwise is rather small in comparison.

But I still buy records every week, I'm at my fav. record store every Thursday when they get their shipment. I definitely own more music than the average person, that's for sure.

Ethically, I don't have a problem with any of it. Without piracy so many artists or even whole genres wouldn't be known. I don't understand why you sound so angry haha, but I still see your point.