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[Bella]

Nice. >w<

[Chocofreak13]

yeah, gift cards mean you don't have much choice. in that case i'd buy a bunch of movies or tv episodes.

[stewartsage]

$10.  I'd been wanting these songs and couldn't find them anywhere else, so I took my opportunity.

[Nichi]

Gift cards can be nice, depending on the place; one for Amazon is awesome, for instance, since they have nearly anything you could want :3

[Chocofreak13]

if i'm FORCED to buy music (and i mean exhausted all options, not even on youtube, or elsewhere where i could just hold the mic up to the speaker for a direct pirate), amazon is my preferred, since they give you an .mp3 rather than a dumb protected .aac that you need to authenticate every time you want to use it and can only use it on 5 computers. while i can respect the need for protection, i've switched computers a lot in the past couple years, as well as switching methods (even having to reinstall itunes a few times). .aac is no use to me. >>;

[Nichi]

If I didn't pirate my music, it was ripped from CDs; thus, if it's in .AAC *and* from me, it's unprotected :3

Although, I now have iTunes set to rip in .MP3

[Red-Machine]

a dumb protected .aac

Actually, AAC's have been DRM-free for years now.  You can transfer them to any computer or device you like.  You just gotta authenticate to redownload them.

[Chocofreak13]

define "years". it's been awhile since i bought music from itunes, but all of mine have the authentication problem, as well as being called "protected .aac" under the format information in itunes. :\

[Red-Machine]

Started in 2007, everything was DRM-free by 2009.

[NejinOniwa]

Itunes still is shitty, due to that annoying fuck interface.

[Krizonar]

Believe it or not, I've never bought music from iTunes, just some tv shows and stuff. I use iTunes for about everything though.

[Red-Machine]

I get full albums from there mainly because I want to support the artist and contribute to charts and so on.

[NejinOniwa]

You know what we should do?

We should start torrenting everything, and start donating money DIRECTLY to the artists. Like, send a letter with a 20$ bill and a note that says "I download your music because I don't want to feed the parasprites in Universal Music/BMG/Whatever affiliated label the artist is under. Here, take this." OR something.

Just to make a statement. And possibly get those fucking shitheads in the MAFIAA off their damn tricycles.

[Red-Machine]

The aritsts I buy music are either indie, or have foreign record labels, so none of my money is going to Universal/BMG/etc.

[Nichi]

The last new album I've bought was Weird Al's newest. Otherwise, I tend to buy all of my CDs used; an act that companies in the video game industry are starting to claim is a form of piracy in and of itself >_<