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Originally Posted by holden
Although, i guess if you've already made your decision to DL (and not pay), you can justify the guilt away however you want. 
Patiently awaiting Oct. 16th for my preorder to arrive 
i'm not ruining my UW Christmas in October |
1. who said anything about not paying? i've already paid for 3 diff. versions of this album. if you're posting to the Underworld message boards, the odds are good you're enough of a fan to buy their albums.
2. ruining? you're implying that those who have heard it already have ruined the experience or something. that's ridiculous. i'm thrilled. i haven't had this much fun walking to and from work, or listening to music at work since the Cocoon broadcast. i waited to hear the album until it leaked on thursday. that build up of 5 years was more than sufficient for me to take extreme pleasure and satisfaction in listening to Oblivion with Bells right now! i don't think waiting 2 weeks would have made a difference in my enjoyment of the album. not one time in the past 5 or 6 years have i ever wished i'd waited to hear an album that i downloaded. not one time!
but it's all about the "EXPERIENCE", the opening of the package, reading the liner notes, cutting out the pictures from Teen Beat.
alternately, its about seeing a post on a message board, logging into your fav. torrent site, see the album you've been waiting to leak finally being shared, download immediately, watch with your heart pounding as the progress bar successfully reveals with each passing second more and more bits of data coming together in that newly created folder, piecing together the sounds you've waiting 5 long years to hear. you see a link to a high quailty jpg. you flip through the tour book you bought at one of the recent live shows. actually several times larger than the cd booklet. you follow links to reviews and message board discussions already occuring with the hundreds who already downloaded while you were sleeping. they're 3 pages into a discussion about the album already so you better catch up. since you don't have to rip the audio to mp3 you just stick it on your media player of choice and begin listening non-stop. you join the conversation that's already in full flow. you participate in dissecting the album, the artwork, diff. versions etc.
by the time those holier than thou, moral stewards have had their albums delivered or purchased from the shops, the discussion has died down and there's a seperate thread for the 3 people to repeat whats been discussed and rehashed for weeks already.
enjoy.