Tonight I did somethign that I have not done in a long, long, long time:
I download an MP3 file from a peer-to-peer network.
And it felt good. Real good.
You see, I'm such an opponent of DRM that I go black or white: I want to listen to my music however I damn well please, especially if I paid for it. I've generally been getting music a few ways: CD rips (the most popular), from friends, or from iTunes-ripped-MP3s.
But tonight, with my favorite source of quasi-legal music almost down-and-out (AllofMP3), I decided to dive back into the shitty-world of P2P. Yes, many files flying around these networks are fakes or of bad quality, but it was worth the download: a clean, DRM-free track from an artist that I already fully supported with three previous albums, and I'm sure I'll eventually be there for the forth.
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