Who do you have most MP3s of?

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Which artist makes up the majority of your virtual msuic collection? Why? If it's because you really like them, do you feel guilty for ripping them off? Or do you own their records too?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

In order; Plaid, Dave Douglas, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Miles Davis, Sugababes, Guns N Roses.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. No. Some.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins, easily. Seven CDRs worth of nothing but, and none of them are official releases either. I really really like them and I can't exactly be accused of ripping off a band I already own everything by and saw plenty of times in concert, so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the fall - well it would cost a packet to buy everything, and yes i do feel slightly guilty/

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Caetano Veloso (because his albums are hard to find for cheap, though I have a couple)
Belle & Sebastian (because I don't have their stuff here at school)
Kompakt records comps (because they're not for sale in the midwest)
Ethiopiques (because I want to hear them all and I only own a couple)
Talking Heads (live bootlegs)

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ABBA, cos I ripped all my favourite ones. Wisely as it turns out, since I lost my G Hits album shortly afterwards.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

lot's of jay-z (too much and too hit n miss to own all of), a fair bit of disco inferno stuff i'll prob never find real life copies of, after that its too messy to tell (some old piano magic stuff, quite a few aaliyah songs)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

spearmint. i have three of their albums. but i own all of their singles and one of their albums, and will eventually buy the rest.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath - bought all their albums on cassette in high school (and later on CD).

― Berkeley Sackett (calstars), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and cinerama, i have three albums of theirs downloaded too

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

sonic youth, silver jews, xiu xiu

― russ, Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

wiley.
and they're mainly the same song.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I second Smashing Pumpkins: 3 cd-r's full of b-side, rare and unreleased tracks. Radiohead are second, but not even close; only b-side and rare stuff as well. I don't feel even a bit guilty for it.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I have three full albums by Kletka Red.
Why? Because they were all available at some website, and I figured why not.
Guilty? No, not at all. To be honest I've hardly listened to them, but heck, if there's something I can't feel apologetic for it's a lack of CD purchasing, as I'm at the point where the floor'll soon cave in.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Roughly in order - Motorhead, Ornette Coleman, Radiohead, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent. Almost all ripped from CDs I own - everything but the Radiohead, which is B-sides and liveage, all of which was sent to me on a CD-R by a friend. I don't download music.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke and Cop Shoot Cop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins. But I uploaded almost all of the MP3s from the albums that I own.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I didn't see the guilty bit. The band I have most mp3s of and feel a bit guilty about is Lightning Bolt, where I have 2 albums worth of tracks and am sort of sitting on the fence about whether I'd actually like a whole CD at once instead of a 'bracing bit of noise on random playlist' kind of appreciation. Maybe I should buy a T Shirt.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

residents - 13 lps
xtc - 12 lps, some live thing, homespun, beeswax, rag & bone, fossil fuel
bardo pond - 11 lps, a couple eps & 7"s
go-bees - 8 lps, two live things, lost album, peels, bellavista, 78-90
prince - 7 lps, hits, 16 discs of the work outtakes/demos
monkees - 6 lps, headquarters sessions, 3 missing links comps, a couple boxsets
iggy &/or stooges - 5 lps, a bunch of lousy sounding comps, kill city, fun house box

14 bill cosby records! richard pryor box! blah blah blah etc etc.

i feel nothing.

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I probably technically have more mp3's of shannon wright than anyone, but only because I had downloaded 5 or 6 live shows. Which I don't feel bad about because they're only for trading anyway. Lots of other ppl have downloaded them from me in return. (I actually got into her music by downloading 2 songs a friend recommended to me, then i went out and bought a cd a few weeks later.)

Most artists I just download 2 or 3 songs to sample and hear new stuff, or else it's things I have on vinyl or old tapes that I want to burn for mix cds or whatever.

I do have a lot of weird Bjork mp3's somewhere as well... bsides or non-album stuff that wasn't available at the time, and most of it probably still isn't. Don't feel bad about that either, I'm sure she's rich enough and there wasn't any way I could have bought them legally.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Easily Autechre = 162 files. No guilt because 1. I have all their LPs and most of their wide-release EPs; 2. mp3s I have are either from rarities or live shows; 3. remixes of other artists, which usually are uninteresting.

― Leee Trevino (Leee), Sunday, 7 December 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

francois de roubaix probably

he died in 1976 so no not really

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 7 December 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a large amount of blue nile live mp3s are rarities.

― Grell (Grell), Sunday, 7 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaggy. I was doing research.

― cybele (cybele), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

me too

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. As if this wasn't any surprise -- Duran Duran! The MP3s I have are either b-sides or remixes (in which case I have at least 50% of them in some format or another, usually vinyl) or album tracks, which I would have 100% of considering I have all their albums. Again, no big surprise.

Next up is Japan and David Sylvian, usually because I really, really want to listen to one of their songs but feel too lazy to pull out any of their CDs. Besides, my computer is quite elderly and really cannot manage my operating it and it playing a CD at the same time. I haven't been able to listen to a CD while computing, using this computer, for a good three years. (Though I do have some Japan/DS b-sides too....)

The rest are fairly evenly spread out, IIRC.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

btw, that 50% amount I gave you would be applicable to real releases. I own pretty much every single one of the b-sides and remixes Duran has ever released if you count having fan-made mixtapes as "owning" them.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That I don't own - the Raincoats and the Vaselines comps/collections, because I can't find them around here, and every time I try to order stuff from Amazon I keep piling stuff in the cart until I've got a $300 bill and can't decide what to eliminate.

I would have a lot more, but Soulseek for OSX was way too much work for me to even think about.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Italian Cinema Lounge, Girl Psyche Pop, Legendary Pink Dots, David Sylvian, Scott Walker

― kinski (kinski), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Sting. David Sylvian. Massive Attack.

― bahtology, Monday, 8 December 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That's so weird, Nick, it's Plaid for me, too. I blame Trainer for having so many tracks.

― Dan I., Monday, 8 December 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I have most MP3s of PJ Harvey, despite owning all her officially released albums. Probably about 60-70 non-album tracks. It is certain that any random dozen of these will be superior to the duff, Mercury Music prize winning 'Stories from the City...'.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead far and away...own every album and most singles already, but I've downloaded other b-sides, unreleased live takes, remixes, and probably a dozen or so shows from the past year-and-a-half of touring.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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