We're all thieves in their eyes

[Rooster]

Hell, the only reason I actually have Cds in the first place is because no-one's made a portable vynal player (even though it'd be sweet!).

It could be a hat, a musical fantabulous hat :O

[Tarukai]

I love you so much for that Rooster XD

[Zaaphod]

Hah! That's awesome. Makes me wish I had vinyl records so I could have a hat too.

[Steve the Pocket]

Reminds me of the scene in The Simpsons where you see a teenager go buy with his big-ol' boom box on his shoulders blasting some rap thing, and then an elderly couple holding one of those humongous record players, like, the 2'-by-6' kind, on their shoulders playing some 1930s jazz number.

[Bocaj Claw]

Your mind must be a magical and frightening place Roo.

[Muninn]

I too still buy CD's because I like to have music in a more physical format as well as mp3's. I only transfer songs I like to my computer and until CD's become totally obsolete I see me buying them.

[Softpaw]

I buy CDs because I'm too much of a wuss to pirate MP3s, and the downloaded ones are usually shoddy quality

I only buy them used, though, unless it's something extraordinarily hard to find.

[Tabris_The_17th]

I only buy the CDs of my favorite artists now, or if the CD is under $10. Otherwise, I just purchase the songs or albums I want off iTunes. Honestly, I like having physical CDs, but since I never use them anymore after I buy them and transfer to the iPod, there just doesn't seem like much of a point.

[KJ Fellie]

I get much of my music off of iTunes, though it is definitely lacking. A great deal of the things I want to buy are not currently on iTunes. Can you believe it has no idea who Roland Orzabal is? (I'm not being incredibly serious here, but the fact that I can't buy some of Roland Orzabal's music off iTunes is annoying me.)
Also, Darude is an unknown to iTunes, as well as The Hollies, and more, yet I found the gummy bear song and video. (Go figure.)

[Baconsticks]

Bitorrent.

The download source for smart people.

[rabid_fox]

Depressingly, this is nothing new. I can't remember the particulars of this, but I remember a vinyl-producing company suing a cassette-producing company because they were able to prove that people were using cassettes to copy vinyl records (usually as back ups in case the record got scratched).

There have been numerous cases where people have been sued over creating 'mix-tapes' (you know, where you put a bunch of songs on a cassette. Imagine a playlist except you can hold it, you whippersnappers).

Being outraged over this is impotent. If we had been outraged when it first happened, there'd have been a leg to stand on but there people standing up to the RIAA are going to be banjaxed by at least twenty-five years of legal precedence.

[Steve the Pocket]

Depressingly, this is nothing new. I can't remember the particulars of this, but I remember a vinyl-producing company suing a cassette-producing company because they were able to prove that people were using cassettes to copy vinyl records (usually as back ups in case the record got scratched).

There have been numerous cases where people have been sued over creating 'mix-tapes' (you know, where you put a bunch of songs on a cassette. Imagine a playlist except you can hold it, you whippersnappers).

Being outraged over this is impotent. If we had been outraged when it first happened, there'd have been a leg to stand on but there people standing up to the RIAA are going to be banjaxed by at least twenty-five years of legal precedence.

Ah, but cassettes were never successfully outlawed, were they? Nor were VCRs. Nor were LimeWire, Kazaa, Gnutella, or BitTorrent. There's plenty of precedent, to be sure, but it mostly involves complete failure on the part of the 'AAs.

[KJ Fellie]

Bitorrent.

The download source for smart people.

And the source of 99% of my anime. (It's not illegal if they haven't licensed it yet...)

Also, another reason I do not buy CDs is because Sony actually puts root kit spyware in their CDs to keep people from pirating music. The spyware takes up a tremendous amount of resources on your computer and is very difficult to remove. In fact, the ninja penguin was paid by someone to remove spyware from a computer, and had a tough time removing a program made by the people Sony hired to make this root kit that they put in all their CDs. This is why the ninja penguin and I do not buy anything from Sony, anymore. They may have good products, but they're *cough* that want to put spyware on computers.

[rabid_fox]

Ah, but cassettes were never successfully outlawed, were they? Nor were VCRs. Nor were LimeWire, Kazaa, Gnutella, or BitTorrent. There's plenty of precedent, to be sure, but it mostly involves complete failure on the part of the 'AAs.

Well, that's true, but I was more attempting to highlight the "How can this even get to court" situation.

Funny story about this. My father, being a bit of long-hair-Zeppelin-listening-Irish-rocker was, of course, poor. So when cassettes came out, he copied all his vinyl onto cassettes and sold the vinyl, only keeping a few bits and pieces (you know, like pristine original Dark Side of the Moon copies with the free prism poster that came with the originals still in the plastic cover!).

Anyway, I digress. When CDs came out, he dutifully and lovingly copied all his cassettes to CD and now that MP3 has arrived, he's copied everything onto his spanking new iPod.

When I told him about this story, he rolled his eyes and said, "One listen-CDs, that's the answer, you listen to the song once and then the CD evaporates."

I told him about the Zune.

He's still crying.

Anyway, the whole point of this wasn't so much to talk about my father's copyfolly, but I notice that you're an appreciator of a good "Ah."

Ergo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqj0nAxs3tE

The introduction does contain the finest use of "Ah," I've personally ever seen.

Careful though, listening to it probably breaks about seventeen point eight laws.