TS: Swipe and Burn VS. Buying the CD

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Generally, for me it depends on the liners and the cost. Lord knows a swipe and burn of a three hundred dollar twelve disc french import box set of Afropop (74-99) with two hundred pages of French liner notes makes for a better swipe and burn; a ten buck cd is generally worth the purchase... even tho' I'm gonna just resell it in a few days anyway.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW: by swipe, I mean "borrow", not "steal"; and "burn" can be read as "rip".
Jesus, I need subtitles now.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Thief.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

CALL THE POLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the sound of this afropop comp. why do you sell them on so fast? is your library completely digital now?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

well CDs are digital but you know what i mean.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

CALL THE POLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE
sting cannot help us now hahahaa!

― joker, Monday, 22 November 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I keep my collection almost ENTIRELY digital.
I walk a tightrope.
And the Afropop compilation was a beautiful nonexistant dream that I use to taunt you. And me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 November 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

And yeah, on harddrive, but you know what I mean.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 November 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Put it this way:

When I decided I liked the White Stripes, I spent my early d0wnl0ading career (stopped doing it now) d/ling the entire WS canon, rather than buying it. If I had bought it instead, I'd have several singles worth £20-£50 each now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, okay; but you may be missing my point.
I'm talking about borrowing a copy of a disc from a friend and ripping it to a computer.
If you like it enough to buy a copy (occasionally I do, mostly to gift it), great.
But the q is, is this a legit way to find new music?
Any more or less so than downloading? Or taping?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Which dovetails nicely with the Nas thread.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you really expect to start a good conversation about the merits of buying CD's versus burning/ripping/whatever them?

― Mickey, Monday, 22 November 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't download at the moment but even when I could I still bought because I like owning the actual CD. The only burns I did were things that hadn't been put on general release in the UK because I ain't paying import prices.

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 22 November 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What I expected was for people to be upfront with what they're actually doing so that I can get a sense of what you folks are up to.
I'm not interested in opening the can of worms that is a VS.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying:
-stuff that the library doesn't have
-stuff that's LTD edition

Swiping:
-stuff that's availble to swipe, assuming I care enough to swipe it

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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