Ditto. I first heard bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Get Up Kids, Drugstore (well, after watching Cherry Falls), all through the Internet and Audiogalaxy.<Jason> I have discovered artists by downloading them from the Internet! and bought their CD's
I agree totally with the pro-AG arguments. I have downloaded gigs of music of Audiogalaxy, Napster and various MP3 sites, but I continue to buy CDs as well.
My primary motive at the moment is to download the tunes I hear on the radio and read in various DJ magazines to 'sample' the songs before I go out and buy them. Saves me having to go into HMV, Pitbull or wherever litstening to tracks, then deciding I'm not going to buy them anyway.
I do admit though that I sometimes download entire albums from the Internet, however these are only usually the albums that I wouldn't have actually bought in the first place.
Just saw another quote:
My point exactly. And on a side note... what do you use to mix MP3s? PCDJ? I've always wondered how I'm supposed to listen to and cue the next track. I've seen the Stanton (http://www.stantonmagnetics.com) Final Scratch (http://www.finalscratch.com) and that looks pretty cool... not sure how it works though...(?).<Andrew>from a DJ's perspective, no, we don't pay royalties to the "artists", we merely DJ from CD, record, or Mp3, my favorite being Mp3. I'm not going to go out and buy an entire CD simply for one song.
Davey - I agree with just about everything (well, at the least the first few paragraphs, I'd got bored by the end of reading all these replies).
Keep Audiogalaxy alive.