What about people who use Napster to download stuff
**because** they'd never buy it? I would never buy
Notorious B.I.G.'s Hypnotize, but I download it almost
every time I smoke a bowl, then delete it after
listening to it. Is that wrong? I normally use
Napster to sample groups that get good reviews and if
I like them, I buy their stuff. I go through the
Solid Steel playlists on the ninjatune site and try to
find mp3s by any of the groups on them. I usually
don't have much luck, though. My biggest beef with
Napster and most of the filesharing services is that
they are obviously dominated by cheap bastards that
collect music like baseball cards. When I originally
heard about the mp3 format, the first thing I thought
of was that finally I'd be able to listen to
hard-to-find stuff like demos, rare live bootlegs,
etc.. but it's not even close. I'd love to be able to
find more out of print stuff. When I search for
"Ice", I get... well, you know, every single Ice T,
Ice Cube, Vanilla Ice, all kinds of other Ice, but not
even stuff off of the lame Bad Blood cd. I noticed
there are a few Solid Steel mixes on napster. Wonder
what the Ninja guys think about that.
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