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Originally Posted by Stephen

Personally I don't see how this makes any difference. If you're buying an OOP second hand commerical release from a 3rd-party/eBay/whatever, you can assume that at least 9 times out of 10 the release has come from the record label's distributor and the label/artist took some money against that particular copy in the first instance. I seriously doubt that in the majority of cases this deprives the artist of any profit.

Well, for past sales you are correct. The limited run of cds pressed have all been sold and generated as much money for the band as possible. However, its quite likely in this day and age that the whole back catalogue will become available in the future, either as a CD pressing or on an online store in an itunes-like fashion. I think offering Underworld songs on the official Underworld forum is in bad taste, and may be hitting future sales. If you can get a 320kbps rip on here, are you gonna buy it when it appears online?

If you really must get it, get it somewhere else.