Downloading songs from Myspace

[chriskisn]

I think that most people on this board go out and buy the official releases. Yes we trade in demos, bootlegs and whatever else. However we are also the hardcore fans that go out and buy the officially released album. I have probably purchased more legal copies of FM and their 16 individual solo careers than most people on this board.

I do believe that people shouldn't download an album off the net where it is readily available in the music store. However I've done it myself many times to sample artists who perhaps I might not like or to find albums have gone out of print.

There is also the problems of tracks being released in one country and not another. I'm in Australia, and we are lucky if anything is available that isn't Top 40 or kiddie pop. Most of my albums I have purchased off the internet because you can not walk into an Australian music store and buy them. I gave up trying to get music stores to do international orders.

I'm also tired of paying ridiculous premiums to import albums and ridiculous amounts of postage. I ordered Jeremy Spencer - In Session yesterday (a birthday present from my parents) which cost me A$37 including postage (about US$27). I purchased a 1 cent album off Amazon and then had to pay nearly US$7 in postage.

Additionally I can't download through Amazon, Zune, etc because I don't live in the US.

So, after my little rant, this is why I sometimes download things off the net that perhaps I shouldn't.

Regardless of which, my initial post was about downloading a song from someone's Myspace page that they have uploaded for us to listen to that is not commercially available. Acquiring that song is certainly no different from trading in demos. I just want to be able to burn it to a CD and listen in my car, upload to an iPod (when I get one), etc.