Anyone else go on...

[elfro89]

but be careful if you dont want to be sued into bankruptcy not that it is a high risk but it happens enough to make it into the news occasionally.

I don't know about US Law but here in the UK, under section 29 of the designs copyrights and patents act of 1988, it is not copyright infringement if the music is for personal study and private research, your not allowed to give these copy's to anyone else or sell them. As musicians you could argue quite successfully that this music is to help you develope as a musician or as a song writer. And most of the time you probably wouldn't be lying, its hard to know about music and switch your brain off without wondering what is going on inside the music. (at least this is true for me anyway)

 

[Paul-less]

Not CD buying rampage, but Vinyl. Around my area, there are tons of places who try to move vinyl, so I always go and buy the 50 cent ~ $1 ones. They actually started giving me milk cartons to carry out the store when I was leaving with 50+

 

[Dan025]

but be careful if you dont want to be sued into bankruptcy not that it is a high risk but it happens enough to make it into the news occasionally.

I don't know about US Law but here in the UK, under section 29 of the designs copyrights and patents act of 1988, it is not copyright infringement if the music is for personal study and private research, your not allowed to give these copy's to anyone else or sell them. As musicians you could argue quite successfully that this music is to help you develope as a musician or as a song writer. And most of the time you probably wouldn't be lying, its hard to know about music and switch your brain off without wondering what is going on inside the music. (at least this is true for me anyway)

well in america there is an advisarial law system and courts cost money. it doesnt matter if they win. they have better more expensive lawyers and they will bring you to court till you cant pay any more legal fees. thus they win. it is not to win or loose it is to create fear in the populous hopeing to reduce the occurance. the law suits are rare but you dont want to be subjuct to one. 

 

[elfro89]

but be careful if you dont want to be sued into bankruptcy not that it is a high risk but it happens enough to make it into the news occasionally.

I don't know about US Law but here in the UK, under section 29 of the designs copyrights and patents act of 1988, it is not copyright infringement if the music is for personal study and private research, your not allowed to give these copy's to anyone else or sell them. As musicians you could argue quite successfully that this music is to help you develope as a musician or as a song writer. And most of the time you probably wouldn't be lying, its hard to know about music and switch your brain off without wondering what is going on inside the music. (at least this is true for me anyway)

well in america there is an advisarial law system and courts cost money. it doesnt matter if they win. they have better more expensive lawyers and they will bring you to court till you cant pay any more legal fees. thus they win. it is not to win or loose it is to create fear in the populous hopeing to reduce the occurance. the law suits are rare but you dont want to be subjuct to one. 

That's fair enough. But in this particular case I doubt it would go to court, because section 29 is very clear. There is no defence against it, unless they want to try and prove otherwise, in which case I would just represent myself in court, which would cost me next to nothing. Then I would try and sue them for lost time.

 

[hannaugh]

Over here, you have to be careful, because RIAA bitches be crazy. 

Insane, right?

 

[Torment Leaves Scars]

CD buying rampages?

Over the past week I have purchased 24 cds, 6 arrived in one day. (Secretly I am hoping that the rest of them arrive on the same day. It would be cool to see 18 seperate packages come through my letterbox  :laughing7: )

NO but I go on downloading rampages on mediafire because I'm not giving those record company dicks my money.

+1.

 

[Graffiti62]

I used to go on CD sprees to get stuff that I normally couldn't hear or find via the normal means. I have a lot of Canadian stuff on CD (Max Webster, April Wine, Kim Michell) due to the fact that you don't hear it often on the radio. However, I've found that Pandora helps a lot when you have a less-than-mainline musical craving.

Here's the way I see it--listening to a CD or an MP3 is like having a beer. Having a normal beer really isn't an experience--you've had one, you've probably had many in the past, and you'll have many in the future. Vinyl forces you to stop and take the time to appreciate it, like having a brandy or a cognac, or something that forces you to drink from a snifter. While I own all of Rory Gallgher's albums on vinyl, I also own them all on CD and have put them onto my computer, mainly for the convenience. Getting all of the albums on CD wasn't too hard--where I bought music as a kid, you could get 10-20% off anything if you paid in cash, even on ordered stuff. Getting all of the albums on vinyl was a loose work in progress, which happened whenever I'd visit a big town that had a record or an import store. However, all of my Les Paul, Barney Kessel and Django Reinhardt albums I refuse to put into any form of electromagnetic format. To me, guitar jazz is that one thing that you can listen to when you're sitting in your basement or den, you have a good mixed drink, and you have a good book, making a deliberate attempt to wind down and relax. The Rory albums, as well as the other various ones I have I like to put on when I'm putzing around in the basement with other stuff.

At the same time, I personally find vinyl fun--the one year I was a student DJ on the campus radio station in college, 95% of the stuff I played was on vinyl, and sadly, I was the only one for most of that year who knew how to work the turntables. One song was almost a routine--put on "I'm Going Home" by Ten Years After live from Woodstock, dash outside, and move my car because I was only allowed to park in the lot closest to the station til 8, when the campus clinic opened up, and the parking was for clinic patients only. I'd park in the general use lot on the other side of the building, get through all of the doors and get back in time to crank Alvin Lee's solo on the studio speakers.