Posted 09/29/2008 at 06:09:54pm

 I have to basically agree with ilander, pyrophorics, & theplustwo.  After all these years of being able to download music, I downloaded my first 3 albums a month ago. Should I hang my head in shame? Hell No! I am proud of the fact that I only rip from those I can 'hold in my own two little hands' or have not been able to locate elsewhere.  I searched & searched for years but could not find these 3 albums. These same 3 comedy albums suddenly appeared on Amazon.com. It cost me all of $6 and change. After downloading, I quickly ripped them in reverse into .wav's, then burned them to cd. If I ever find the albums on cd, I will buy them: the sound is SO much better, the artwork and, maybe, lyrics & band info are there, AND, the artist (& the music companies) deserve to be compensated. If the artists can not pay their rent, then they move on to other careers. If the music machine goes out of business, then who puts on the live music concerts, who promotes the artists, and who puts the music on cd?  Not that I L-o-v-e the Music Machine, but that's what we have! If they would put the cds on the web to download in a lossless format like .flac AND put all the booklet pages in Std Def or High Def along with the music, then I would buy them to dowload and print.  Face it. The music machine is out of date (cds are 27 years old!). And is bleeding money and talent.....We need a better system than we have today!  We deserve a better system!

          Sometimers: Some times I remember; Some times I don't.

Posted 09/10/2008 at 03:42:00am

I'm not offended, I just wish people would take the 1/2 second it takes to preview their comments and make them readable.  Is that so hard?  

I'm done.

Posted 09/09/2008 at 05:27:20pm

  I'm not trying to be one, just asking for a little more clarity.  And I did state that the person probably had good ideas and could just be thinking faster than they could type.  So I did cut them some slack.  I too have good days and bad ones but when I'm having a bad day, I try to be extra carefull.  I don't sit here with a grammer book or a dictionary and I am a terrible typist (Uncle Arthritis ya' know). Nor did I call the person names mom would have washed my mouth out for saying. But from your reply, I must have hit a real sore point and from your flame I would guess that you are uncouth, can't spell, and have a real way with words. But at the same time could probably build a box in thirty minutes 

By the way, your final paragraph pertends to give me advice to think twice and be aware of the writer's feelings.  But then you shoot yourself in the foot with your own last sentence.

Posted 09/09/2008 at 03:03:25pm

Comment was in reply to "But....All is about money."

Posted 09/09/2008 at 03:02:45pm

If you could write or spell correctly then we might understand what you have to say.  And what you have to say may be of interest. I love to read comments from many forums but I often find that I can't get past the mistakes in spelling, grammer, or just typing.  Or maybe the writer has thoughts that are faster than his or her fingers can type.  And I should not single any one person out. But hey, I,m a crotchety old man so I get to say things like this.