Throughout my teenage years and into my early 20's I spent a lot of hard earned money on vinyl and tapes. Approx. 350 tapes and 400 records. When I found out I could download all those tunes off the net I went nuts and did it. Don't feel a bit of shame or remorse about it either cause there is no way in hell I'm gonna pay all over again for cds to replace all those records and tapes.
Last time I checked I was a little over 4000 mp3s.

over a 1000 songs in my time...not that many

100s
maybe 1000s
hard to say heheheh

Ive got like 300 - 400 songs... dont know the exact figure

Quite a few, I like to check out lots of different music. I tend to buy the stuff I like though.

Two 40 gig drives full, movies and music

whatever happened to hotline for mac? the first and last time i saw it was about 6 or 7 years ago, but it looked pretty cool... I think that was my first exposure to p2p filesharing come to think of it...

I've got somewhere between 5000 and 7000 mp3s on a hard drive around here, plus 15 mp3 cds full that i can't seem to find anymore. And I've downloaded less than 20 songs in the past year. Most of my mp3 downloading was done in the days of napster, of which I was amongst the first users (on a 56k, no less... or should i say no more).

about 2000. but with all the ones i deleted because i got tired of them...closer to 3000

iunno prolly a few hundred,

I don't have any *albums* on mp3 that I didn't buy. All of the full-albums I have were already bought on CD. I do have about 200 songs that I didn't pay for - no band having more than two or three songs that I've downloaded from them. I refuse to pay twenty fucking dollars for a single good song and 10 other shitty songs. Put out a good album, I'll buy it. If not, I'll download your one decent one and that's that.

I have about 134.7

I fucking hate listening to a newly downloaded song to find out I got only part of the file... sonsabitches!

I've got 2000-3000 and have listened to all of them...hard to tell exactly cuz I've got some duplication in my directory structure. I've purchased exactly one CD in my entire life--Audioslave.

Yes it is stealing. Yes I will continue to do it as long as technically feasible. Meh.

I have less than 50, I doubt much, if any of it is even RIAA related stuff, but if I had a fast connection I'd download a whole heap of pop just to rub it in their well-fed faces.

probably about a hundred. i delete the ones i end up getting tired with so usually have about 40 or so at any given time.

I d/l about 5000 over the years. A new album comes out and someone recommends it -- I just d/l the entire thing -- No harm, no foul -- if I don't like it, I'll just delete it...

Overall I've probably downloaded around 400... Friends have sent me music online as well.


On my hard drive now I only have about 100 or so. And none sharing ;)

I always buy albums that I like.

One. Hubby has downloaded quite a few but I don't listen to that much music and and usually not picky about who I listen to. It all depends on my mood and the kind of music and rarely on whether I like the performer or not. Often I just listen to the radio or one of our several hundred CD's. I have such a wide variety of tastes that I don't bother spending the time or drive space on Music that I can get somewhere else without the work. The only one I downloaded I lost in a drive reformatt. It was an older song that I couldn't find very easily. It's been so long since that too I don't even remember the title well. Something like Wayfaring Travelor. It just seemed a little hard to find the traditional playing of it on a CD.

Several hundred. I made them available on Napster but got rid of Kazaa due to the pop-ups, etc.

I had about 2,000 but just reformatted my HDD and decided to wipe 'em.

I live in Canada so the RIAA can't touch me... I just listen to Radio Paradise now @ www.radioparadise.com :D

20 or so over the past three or four years from Morpheus and some crap websites - 99.9% of my multi-gig collection is from Emusic.com or my own encoding jobs.

I've got about 1500 songs on MP3. On the other hand, I have about 900 CD's. I have bought plenty to keep the RIAA happy.

Of the MP3's, I usually buy the CD if the songs are worth a crap. Alot of the songs I have downloaded I now have the CD's for. I actually think CD sales would be down more without all of the file sharing. There are alot of people that I would have never heard if it wasn't for Napster / Kazaa / etc.

hEY EVERYONE

Thanks for all of your submissions , I really appreciate your honesty.

I used to have hundreds of songs but found that I never listened to them. I know that the RIAA doesn't give a shit about wheather or not your actually listen to the songs. All they care about it whether you have the songs. Which I am sure you agree is complete bull%^$@.

Since I aquired digital cable for my home I listen to any one of the hundreds of comercial free "CD quality" stations that they offer as a part of the package. The funny part is that m new digital pckage offers more music for a lower price. ( I am paying for the TV anyhow the music is free)

It's funny that you can't find Metallica anywhere on the digital system. Those losers are so worried about me downloading their songs ... and they aren't even good enough to get picked up by any of the hundreds of digital stations availble nationally.

I figure that good music sells and crap won't.

G'day

Skippy

Around 300 or so.

All of my songs have been downloaded for free....its the best price in town

Around 1000 songs. Lately I can't seem to find anymore music that is worth downloading.

Wow I haven't heard that program mentioned in a long time. I think that must have been my first exposure to p2p as well. It used to be such a good place to get bootlegs.

As far as album mp3's, I'm not sure. I don't really keep anything but bootlegs. My main reason for d/l-ing mp3's is to either get the album before it comes out or to see if I want to buy it. After that I usually get rid of them. I'd say I have maybe 3 cd's of (studio)album mp3's. Bootlegs I prob. have about 20-25 cd's (mp3 format, not decompressed and burned).

i have download "enough" or "sufficient" amount to satisfy my needs :D

Spidey. I appreciate your candor. I used to have a few thousand files but now I haven't got any. I just didn't listen to the music. I also don't buy any more commercialy produced CD's unless I buy them from the band I have gone to see. Live music rules!

I also have Cable radio at home... that makes a huge difference.

i fully understand what you mean by not listening to them anymore. I mean seriously if you have over 2000 mp3s thats roughly a billizion hours of music and no way on earth would anyone be capable of listening to all that. I believe the one true reason why people have so many is for bragging rights. I mean i notice this being a common topic among friends, "i have x number of mp3s which is more than you y number of mp3s etc etc"

There is a movment in Canada to have an additional tax added to the sale of any blank media (tapes, CD'S, etc). This money would be given to the recording industry to offset copyright imfringment losses from downloading MP3's and copying CD's and DVD's. To me, this represents a "download/copy fee". I will never buy another pre-recorded CD.

not too many.
i´d say about 50.

its not that i consider it theft... i don´t... but i only have a dial-up. which means that it takes me about 15mins to download per song on Kazaa Lite.

i just can´t be bothered most of the time.

id say about 2 gigs worth

6.37 GB for 1131 songs. Most were downloaded from the old Usenet newsgroups, few (less than 100) via p2p.

i have about 1000 songs maybe a little more

Looks like about 12 Gigs...
6 Gigs of various stuff for an Internet radio show I used to do.
6 Gigs of Country Music because that's what I'm listening to now.

None for me. All mine are CD's.

Not nearly as many as I have. I share a dedicated server at work with a few other and between we've ripped ourselves, and downloaded, we have a little over 68GB.. Granted some of it isn't my taste, but we have access. I would ponder a guess that I personally have probably dl'd 3,000-4,000.

Ive got somewhere near 9000 songs downloaded

Seeing as i have over 100 music CD's STORE BOUGHT, and then about 20~ cds or so dl'ed from certain non-p2p places ;P

I feel that is entirerly in the margin of fair.

Because about them 20 that are not bought, the over priced cost for the 100 purchased them 20.

I refuse to use p2p due to the political BULLSHIT that they can get away with for gaining your information.

900 or so