Iain Forfar said the following on 20/01/2003 7:16:
quoted 15 lines How much time and money is it going to cost to download an album over a>>>How much time and money is it going to cost to download an album over a
>>>shared 56k dialup from a Calcutta cyber cafe, or somewhere similar in
>>>Thailand, China, Brazil, etc?
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>>I'm not sure, I've never lived in or visited these places nor reasearched
>>these prices.
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>One of my great joys in life is browsing in record shops. I've even got to
>know some of the guys in some of the shops I go to, and they can recommend
>stuff, and hell, they'll all let me spin the discs to see if I like what I'm
>going to buy. Call it human contact, call it organic - Whatever.
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>
I fully agree. I loved browsing the London & Manchester record shops,
and figured they'd got to know me when they started giving me discounts
for buying in bulk :-) I felt a mixture of pride and shame over that.
Record shops here in Sydney are IMO nowhere near as good: they stock a
smaller range and get new releases rather late.
For me, though, the draw of p2p is all the stuff which isn't available
in any record shop: the bootlegs & radio mixes which make up the
majority of my downloads.
-- Richard