Do you feel guilty about downloading OwB?

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by patrick

i'd sell it for about 30 dollars...

i love the try before buy method. back in the day before this, i constant felt screwed when i'd buy an albumn that would end up being a bunch of shit with the one good track i'd heard previously.

Yeah, gone are the days of my yoof when you could go into a record shop, pick up a vinyl and ask the bloke behind the counter to let you hear a few tracks from it. Maybe there are still some indie outlets that would humour you, but I doubt very much HMV, Virgin et al. would let you do this if you asked. I know some stores do have listening booths where they have a kind of juke-box setup, but it is based on what they consider to be the albums of the week, not on a customer-driven basis.

[sloff]

I'm resisting temptation so far, but its so hard to wait until mine comes in the mail.
I remember how happy I was when AHDO came out and I bought it in the shop on release day and cracked the package. It was a nice autumn day and the first play in the car was luscious. SO that's what I keep reminding myself about.

[negative1]

ah the price of being a collector,

ok, maybe i'm addicted, because i even buy albums i
don't really like...i didn't care much for 'adho' but i got
it anyway, and yes i bought this album too, but i don't
rank it up there with the 'essential' underworld....but
then again..maybe its too early for that..

-1

[lowbit]

I'd feel a lot clearer about the issue of downloading if it weren't for situations like the one we currently face, where I've paid for the album, people are able to walk into a store in Japan and buy it (with an extra track, no less!), and I still don't have it. Releasing it early in Japan with an extra track is purely manipulative, forcing fans (like most of us here -- the ones who, by the way, often work hard to promote the artist's work to others) to shell out a lot of extra cash if they want to hear all of the music.

I don't like the idea of people downloading my favorite artists' work for nothing, but I'm also bloody sick of shelling out extra hard-earned dough on a regular basis for "maxi-singles" and Japanese and Australian versions with tracks not available in my country. Yeah, it's been going on so long that we're used to it, but that doesn't make it any less arbitrary and exploitive. It's ridiculous.

[cured]

I downloaded it but I also pre-ordered the album several weeks ago. Underworld can always count on taking my money be it albums, concert tickets, shirts, other merchandise

I'm one of those people that only spends cash on bands I like. I couldn't care less about the off-downlaod of one or two songs off of one album I'll only listen to a couple of times.

[gambit]

No, because I'm getting it free in the mail anyway.

[the real stuff]

dunno if anyone else has been checking torrent sites, but on demonoid there's a labeled torrent "Oblivion with Bells" that is actually a music video of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up

[Flywaver]

Originally Posted by the real stuff

dunno if anyone else has been checking torrent sites, but on demonoid there's a labeled torrent "Oblivion with Bells" that is actually a music video of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up

Eevn Better Than The Real Thing.......!

[dubman]

Originally Posted by the real stuff

dunno if anyone else has been checking torrent sites, but on demonoid there's a labeled torrent "Oblivion with Bells" that is actually a music video of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up

you know you've got demand when a link turns into a rickroll.

[Sean]

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