Where do you get your music?

[bhunt70]

simple.

[mvd]

1. Other - a combo

Usually from stores and websites like amazon.com and cdbaby. On rare occasions, from pay sites like iTunes. I don't keep anything I get from WinMX for more than what it takes to get a quick listen to some songs from an album I'm curious about, and I share classical so I feel I'm not a leech.

[DenverDem]

2. I trade for live music from bands that allow taping.

As a jam band enthusiast I get hundreds of hours of incredible music that way.

I support the bands I collect by buying their commercial releases and attending their concerts. Some bands I will travel with and see several shows in a row.

My favorite is Widespread Panic. I also enjoy Government Mule, the Radiators, and what's left of the Dead.

FTP'ing of Shorten files is a lossless way of downloading these bands that allow this form of collecting their live shows.

I do feel that downloading commercial music is unethical and should be illegal, but the idiots in the record industry need to figure out a way of providing music through downloading technology that is equitable to the consumer and the bands and is inexpensive enough to be marketable. The targeting of people using the prevailing technology with absurd lawsuits is counterproductive and a public relations nightmare and only makes the problem worse.

As a video and media producer, I feel that creators should have intellectual property rights and the ability to control the distribution of their created files.