How many gigs of PURCHASED music do you have? [Archive]

Cheesus

07/25/08, 11:43 AM

Hope this thread hasn't been made before...

This isn't an e-peen contest, I'm just honestly curious how many gigs of legit, purchased music you have.

thespearkid

07/25/08, 11:46 AM

Don't know the exact number but probably close to equal to the amount of "stolen" music.

Neo Cassady

07/25/08, 11:47 AM

Not sure. I can throw up a picture of my CD shelf though if it helps (although there was a thread about that somewhere).

edit: I have however many gigs this is...
Damn, I didn't realize this thread was from this long ago. Anyway, figured I'd take some pictures of my cd shelf while I was taking pictures of the rest of my apartment, so here goes:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/wastedspacejm2/DSC08571.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/wastedspacejm2/DSC08564.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/wastedspacejm2/DSC08565.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/wastedspacejm2/DSC08566.jpg

GuitarR0cker1

07/25/08, 11:49 AM

Not much, probably around 10% of my stolen music.

IWasaCamera

07/25/08, 11:51 AM

About 60 of my 90.

Cheesus

07/25/08, 11:57 AM

About 60 of my 90.
Haha, wow! Well done, thats awesome.

Only 13.34 here. I'm workin on it

IWasaCamera

07/25/08, 11:58 AM

Working at a record store helps.

KatieKutthroat.

07/25/08, 11:59 AM

I'd say less than half of my 60 gigs of music is stolen.

WakeUpBlondie

07/25/08, 12:13 PM

about 6 of my 13

If it's legal it's on a cd, i hate buying digital music

Neo Cassady

07/25/08, 12:16 PM

about 6 of my 13

If it's legal it's on a cd, i hate buying digital music

This. I've bought about 5 albums from itunes just because I had gift cards...I'll probably still buy the physical albums at some point.

Cheesus

07/25/08, 12:16 PM

about 6 of my 13

If it's legal it's on a cd, i hate buying digital music
Seriously... I tried iTunes once, fail. My computer was about to crash so I was trying to transfer all my files to an external drive. My purchased iTunes music was worthless, I couldn't touch the files.

Its like, why PUNISH people who are buying the goddamned music??

thespearkid

07/25/08, 12:19 PM

about 6 of my 13

If it's legal it's on a cd, i hate buying digital music
The only song I ever brought digitally was Baby Girl, I'm a Blur when it first went up.

WakeUpBlondie

07/25/08, 12:20 PM

This. I've bought about 5 albums from itunes just because I had gift cards...I'll probably still buy the physical albums at some point.

same. physical albums to me have so much more value to me, i appreciate them a lot more

Neo Cassady

07/25/08, 12:22 PM

same. physical albums to me have so much more value to me, i appreciate them a lot more

Seriously. I just brought all of my CDs to my apartment a couple weeks ago (see above) because I love looking through the booklets while I'm listening to an album. You can't get that with mp3s (or even if you can, looking through it on a computer screen just isn't the same).

WakeUpBlondie

07/25/08, 12:34 PM

Seriously. I just brought all of my CDs to my apartment a couple weeks ago (see above) because I love looking through the booklets while I'm listening to an album. You can't get that with mp3s (or even if you can, looking through it on a computer screen just isn't the same).

I think I have about half of your cd's

Neo Cassady

07/25/08, 12:38 PM

I think I have about half of your cd's

I need to sell some of mine...not that I think I have too many, but just because there's some stuff (read:crap) on that shelf that I haven't listened to in years.

x togepi x

07/25/08, 12:40 PM

i have no way of knowing because i've sold so many of my cds in the past few years because i wanted to switch over to vinyl. i can't remember what i've ripped and what i've downloaded. at one point, i'd say i had a 75% legal music.

WakeUpBlondie

07/25/08, 12:41 PM

I need to sell some of mine...not that I think I have too many, but just because there's some stuff (read:crap) on that shelf that I haven't listened to in years.

I might be interested. PM some titles you're willing to sell and prices

yay 1k

Neo Cassady

07/25/08, 12:45 PM

I might be interested. PM some titles you're willing to sell and prices

yay 1k

I doubt you'd want most of it; it's a lot of nu-metal from middle school that I'll probably either have to sell on ebay or just give to a thrift store. But once I go through them and figure out what else I want to part with I'll let you know.

and congrats!

edit: oh snap, prestige!

WakeUpBlondie

07/25/08, 01:04 PM

I doubt you'd want most of it; it's a lot of nu-metal from middle school that I'll probably either have to sell on ebay or just give to a thrift store. But once I go through them and figure out what else I want to part with I'll let you know.

and congrats!

edit: oh snap, prestige!

haha ok. If you have any non-shitty korn/linkin park type cd's, let me know

doyouhas?

07/25/08, 02:38 PM

i have like 15 gigs of music. and probably less than 1 gig is stolen. so i buy pretty mcuh everything.

ThisIsSuchAPity

07/25/08, 05:11 PM

17 gigs of music, of which about > 1 is legally purchased.

miketrondson

07/25/08, 05:16 PM

At this point, about 22 gigs of 30 is purchased, ripped and on my laptop. The other is from bands who are broken up/too rich to notice

Example- The MovieLife and 50 Cent.

EchoPark

07/25/08, 06:14 PM

I've purchased 2 tracks on iTunes. The b-sides of the new Alkaline Trio release In My Stomach and Burned Is The House

Of the close to 150gb of music on my external, around 60gb is from cds and the rest is well...you know.

ambiguous.dude

07/25/08, 07:33 PM

of my 30 gb of music, 5 is purchased.

thesafeword

07/25/08, 07:46 PM

I'm probably 30% bought, 70% stolen. I know, I'm a horrible person.

Cheesus

07/26/08, 02:33 AM

OK, so alot of you have some legit collections. Not bad. But to those of you who download (or whatever the hell you do), is the sound quality equal to that of purchased music?

thesafeword

07/26/08, 02:35 AM

Yeah, it's fine.

Cheesus

07/26/08, 02:44 AM

Yeah, it's fine.
Haha, wowwwww. then I seriously do not know whats keeping everyone from downloading. Other than the support thing, that is.

thesafeword

07/26/08, 02:46 AM

Well it is illegal, but fuck the system, right?

spriltsc

07/26/08, 05:16 PM

70 MB of purchased music out of 46.74 GBs. P2P FTW!! i'm soooo bad for not supporting these artists. I promise when i become rich i'll buy your cds.

ActorInThisPlay

07/26/08, 05:31 PM

I own 350 CD's and 50 records...whatever that equates to in GB's.

jtsnazzy

07/26/08, 05:43 PM

A little out of a lot.

duhpunk

07/26/08, 05:49 PM

i dont know. i have a lot of cd's

allhourcymbals

07/26/08, 06:04 PM

Probably a little less than half of all the music I have on my computer was purchased. I download a lot of albums and then end up buying them anyway.

ambiguous.dude

07/26/08, 06:27 PM

Probably a little less than half of all the music I have on my computer was purchased. I download a lot of albums and then end up buying them anyway.

Me too I do this, I hate buying a bad album, I download the Cd and if it's good i'll go buy it. I bought I think two cd's without listening to it and they're probably the 2 worsts albums I have, Conviction by Aiden and Welcome The Night by The Ataris.

allhourcymbals

07/26/08, 06:42 PM

Me too I do this, I hate buying a bad album, I download the Cd and if it's good i'll go buy it. I bought I think two cd's without listening to it and they're probably the 2 worsts albums I have, Conviction by Aiden and Welcome The Night by The Ataris.
I only buy CDs without listening to them if they're from bands that I absolutely love already.

_jonas

07/26/08, 08:17 PM

0.
i've never used money to download anything.

Kid B

07/26/08, 08:34 PM

Me too I do this, I hate buying a bad album, I download the Cd and if it's good i'll go buy it. I bought I think two cd's without listening to it and they're probably the 2 worsts albums I have, Conviction by Aiden and Welcome The Night by The Ataris.

I only buy CDs without listening to them if they're from bands that I absolutely love already.

0.
i've never used money to download anything.

All of these.

versus_god

07/26/08, 08:41 PM

I will never pay for digital downloads.

Osto

07/26/08, 08:58 PM

I don't know the amount of GBs that my music takes up but I do actually own 90 percent of the music I have, so roughly 700 cds and 30 records.

mellzie14

07/26/08, 09:12 PM

6.8 GB out of 10.5. I used to download using P2P, but I'm far too scared of being sued now...

Cheesus

07/29/08, 10:33 AM

I don't know the amount of GBs that my music takes up but I do actually own 90 percent of the music I have, so roughly 700 cds and 30 records.
Balls. That is a whole damn lot of music. Pics?

SLoT

07/29/08, 10:36 AM

probably about 80% of my 100+ gigs i suppose.

Neo Cassady

07/29/08, 10:51 AM

3mpire

07/29/08, 11:00 AM

I will never pay for digital downloads.

Ditto. It feels like it's missing something without the box, cd and artwork.

I think my collection is around 40 purchased, 60 dl'd. (%)

mattmatumbo

07/29/08, 11:20 AM

im going to say safely that my music is 90% stolen, which is quite a bit but that means about 4-5 gigs is purchased lol

Cheesus

07/29/08, 11:29 AM

I tallied it up...according to RYM, I own

343 CDs
95 Vinyl albums (+ a whole slew of 7"s)
8 Digital albums (damn itunes gift cards...I'll be buying those in physical form at some point)
1 Cassette album
3 Music DVDs
You are awesome. I need to meet more people like you. I don't even know someone who has purchased more than 10 cds (not including my father.)

And iTunes cards suck. I always save them to re-gift since they are essentially worthless.

If I EVER digitally download anything, it will be illegally. Just so I can actually move the fucking files however, and wherever I want. Seriously, why does iTunes encrypt their files? Is it necessary to punish the people paying for the music?

White Noise

07/29/08, 11:42 AM

Probably about a quarter of my 50 GB's. I just recently started buying cd's, so I'll eventually buy all of this.

AlternateToLife

07/29/08, 11:53 AM

On my Itunes I only have about 5 and a half. Most of it's legal.

Cheesus

07/30/08, 11:42 AM

Probably about a quarter of my 50 GB's. I just recently started buying cd's, so I'll eventually buy all of this.
Right on :ok:

nikaidoh

07/30/08, 11:43 AM

0 gigs. lol

guitarpickheart

07/31/08, 04:36 PM

All my music- 57 CDs, including legal downloads. I only really got into music/buying CDs about 1 1/2 years ago.

edit: I have more like 70 CDs since some are deleted off my computer like the religious stuff I used to listen to, and Paramore/FOB type stuff.