Copying a harddrive's worth of songs onto your computer: C or D?

are people ever going to start selling "60 gigz o' funk", "the heavy metal hard drive" "fully loaded ipods" etc....

its classic... hypothetically.

I've done it several times before, and it is undoubtedly classic. As long as you keep buying records I don't see the problem.

this is a very intersting topic. i've been thinking about this a lot lately. i've filled 4 iPods with my collection. a collection i have dedicated enormous amounts of time and money finding, buying, borrowing, encoding, transfering from vinyl etc. i'm starting to feel like i've been ripped off (that's what friends are for though, right?). i am still in the process of "going digital" with my entire collection. i envision a time, in the not so distant future where i'll have all my music on 1 giant hardrive and another harddrive backup. iTunes is already my hub for music in the house and i shudder when i remember trying to pull 5 good CD's for a kick ass shuffle. HA! i can wake up sunday morning and listen to 10 albums by the durutti column on shuffle, or sequentially or 60+gigs on random or whatever i choose. no more standing in front of the rack wondering what i'm going to listen to. i think this movement of digitizing collections and having hard drives represent the next medium for music consumption and enjoyment will aid the Digital Download market. Record labels cannot survive with the current system any longer and artists should be realizing they can make loads more by cutting out the greedy labels and going straight to the consumer. maybe. :)

so, should i charge my friends for hooking their sorry a&&es up?

I'm all for file sharing, but lately the enormity of some aspects of it have taken me aback. For instance, I've noticed a trend online of people offering entire discographies for download, i.e. every single AC/DC album, in one file. Now, this is really cool, and really efficient, but I think if it's something that complete, and someone indeed wants all those albums, then they should just buy them. Really, what kind of fan doesn't have at least several albums from someone when they'd they'd be happy to have all of them?

Mix CDs, or collections of songs that aren't as modular, or are more eclectic, seem fine to trade, though. There have been tons of things - like a lot of those C700! comps people made - that I wish I could just drop right onto my computer, since cobbling together something similar at home would be far more complex and time-consuming (if not outright impossible) then simply picking tracks from my own CDs.

"i envision a time, in the not so distant future where i'll have all my music on 1 giant hardrive and another harddrive backup"

I've been there for about two years now. Having to move around a bit, I've now compiled all my music onto a hard drive and my computer/ipod are my sole means of listening. I'm not happy with this arrangement but it's very useful for making new connections.