Do you share your Underworld mp3s?

[groovypanda]

Originally Posted by stimpee

If you want to share Underworld, why share the stuff thats available in the shops, for instance?

umm, because that's their best stuff

[BeautifulBurnout]

I only share non-released live stuff. And altho I have used the likes of slsk in the past, I don't any more, on a point of principle as much as anything else. I guess I am a dino like Lloyd and old habits die hard, in that I tend to buy stuff I really want as soon as it is released, and wait for other stuff to be in the bargain bucket.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by Pancetta

everybody just answer no to this one then we'll keep getting MP3's from the shop!

its not that simple...

people share, whether its us here or not...it'll happen

UW are aware files get shared...they won't stop because a few people share their music...

and isn't the spreading the music the most important thing here...its not about money or copywrites all teh time is it?

i mean iTunes seems to be doing alright with people buying mp3's, albiet the fact that loads of people 'share' as well...in fact mp3 buying is one of the fastest growing 'businesses' so i don't think that the sharing issue is that much of a problem, especially as more people are scared of getting 'nicked' for illegal sharing / d/ling

i share, but only when i want something in return, its not like i'm ever up for long anyway

most of the time, i'll d/l something if i wanna hear it then go buy the album...

[big screen satellite]

as an aside to my above post - i have no friends and so the internet fraternity are my friends - so everyone who is online is like a buddy

take what you like

i have my massive colelction of hard copy stuff here to wallow in anyway...

(and i'm trying to buy up everything else, so sharing is the only way you'll get it )

[spoonman]

About me i always shared my underworld's mp3 , i thin it's very imoportant to do this, for many people it's the 1st occasion to listen to the underworld's sound, also i have many friend in soulseek that i trade with them like mt best friend ' Undarreworld'.

About their rare gigs i give them if only some one give me something new !
it's a great honnor to have more than 90 Shows !

[dubman]

well, i haven't before.. because i would have slsk on a computer that would only have the mp3s i've downloaded in the last month or so.

that's not to say that *if* i had it on my ibook (which is getting more underworld fed to it every week (it's new)) i wouldnt share them.
no one downloads anything from me anyway, so i don't really care.

i don't translate respect and love for an artist by explicitly not sharing their files. as someone who used to be perpetually broke until very recently, i understand how one does not just BUY things they HEAR about.
they often just want to check it out. and if it's not thier thing, then dont let em spend $15 on it.
if they do like it and still dont buy it, well, if they like to have a music collection comprised of deteriorating ones and zeros, that's their priority, i suppose.

[dubman]

Originally Posted by spoonman

About me i always shared my underworld's mp3 , i thin it's very imoportant to do this, for many people it's the 1st occasion to listen to the underworld's sound, also i have many friend in soulseek that i trade with them like mt best friend ' Undarreworld'.

About their rare gigs i give them if only some one give me something new !
it's a great honnor to have more than 90 Shows !

out of curiosity, which ones actually have good sound? i'm looking for a ratio or percentage...
i have about 40 putzing around on different hard drives and i swear about 30 of them are worth their size, and that's being generous. and the more gigs i get, the more i feel that i'm scraping the barrel.

[den]

I guess mine is shared by default. I'm not on soulseek very often. If you follow the "righteous" school of sharing music, then I think it's ok to share commercially available stuff, the idea being that one will download music to sample and then buy it later.

That's what I do in theory, but recently I realized that I haven't really put that into practice. You have to be honest with yourself: Once you download an album, and if you like it, how often do you go out and buy it later? Once you have the music, it's too easy to justify not buying the cd. You rationalize to yourself that you don't really like it so much that you want to pay for it. There's no definitive amount of "liking-ness" where you can determine if you will purchase the cd or not. After I realized this, I've been buying a lot more cds lately. But the problem still remains.

Most people say they download and then buy later, but no one does that 100% of the time. I'm sure everyone who shares music has downloaded something, kept it and not deleted it, and yet not purchased it. You have to be careful that you're not just saying you buy things later to feel good about yourself. That, or just have no qualms about stealing music.

Also, not saying that anyone does this, but it's silly to download albums from other bands, and share those, but keep Underworld separate. Why give special treatment to one band?

Besides, I never really see anyone downloading Underworld from me, so they must not be that good.

[dubman]

Originally Posted by den

That's what I do in theory, but recently I realized that I haven't really put that into practice. You have to be honest with yourself: Once you download an album, and if you like it, how often do you go out and buy it later? Once you have the music, it's too easy to justify not buying the cd. You rationalize to yourself that you don't really like it so much that you want to pay for it. There's no definitive amount of "liking-ness" where you can determine if you will purchase the cd or not. After I realized this, I've been buying a lot more cds lately. But the problem still remains.

Most people say they download and then buy later, but no one does that 100% of the time.

well, i do my best...

my top 50 list for this year is essentialy the list for checklisting the albums i should be getting as well. and occasionaly, when i feel pretty grand, i'll just up and order animal collective and the Go team because i've enjoyed the music for quite some time and i feel like it's a good album to have for many many years.

of course, this might change if and when my budgetary situation becomes more constrained, but as long as i feel that i can afford it, i'll buy it.

[the real stuff]

Maybe this is raising people's standards -- these days a CD has to be a little more worthy in the consumer's eye before he decides to buy it. Otherwise he could just download it for free off soulseek, right?

I've been exposed to a lot of artists through downloading mp3s -- Underworld included -- and for some of those artists I now own their entire back catalogue. These are some of my favorite bands now.

The process of discovering new music on the internet with no risk involved is (arguably) an improvement over what we might have done before, which is buying a CD in the store based on something you might have heard and ultimately not digging it much. There was a risk of not getting your money's worth. Downloading free music eliminates this risk.

Not saying that makes it right or wrong, just offering my thoughts.