Acts of thievery...
...which he consciously knew were against the law.
(See Ollivander's for more revealing shots of this character)
Somewhere along the way, my method of acquiring music through not-so-thoroughly-legal means got a little bit out of hand. It bothers Amy more than it bothers me, so she probably won't be a big fan of this post. Anyhow, I've never had a problem ethically with downloading individual songs, but I always figured if I downloaded a bunch of songs from the same album then I was kidding myself and I should just go pick up the CD. And for a long time I stuck to it pretty well, if I downloaded all or most of an album, I'd go buy it.
But over the years I've let quite a few slip through the cracks. I was curious to see how far I had actually taken it, so I decided to poke through iTunes and find out. What follows is a compiled list of albums whose presence on my iPod I cannot justify. [Notes: 1)I did not include bootlegged concerts because I couldn't "buy" them if I wanted to. 2)I left out anything in the Christmas genre because I see that as a gray area. 3)A few of these albums get so little or no airplay that I don't think they should count, but I'm keeping them on the list. 4)There are some on this list that I can't believe I don't own legitimately. It's ridiculous, I have no excuse.]
Albums that technically shouldn't be on my iPod.
(I have no interest in discussing how music downloads affect the recording industry.)
EDIT: These acquisitions did not come entirely from downloading. Nearly half were ripped from friends' CDs, which is an issue I meant to address separately but forgot. It's all part of the same larger problem though.
(See Ollivander's for more revealing shots of this character)
Somewhere along the way, my method of acquiring music through not-so-thoroughly-legal means got a little bit out of hand. It bothers Amy more than it bothers me, so she probably won't be a big fan of this post. Anyhow, I've never had a problem ethically with downloading individual songs, but I always figured if I downloaded a bunch of songs from the same album then I was kidding myself and I should just go pick up the CD. And for a long time I stuck to it pretty well, if I downloaded all or most of an album, I'd go buy it.
But over the years I've let quite a few slip through the cracks. I was curious to see how far I had actually taken it, so I decided to poke through iTunes and find out. What follows is a compiled list of albums whose presence on my iPod I cannot justify. [Notes: 1)I did not include bootlegged concerts because I couldn't "buy" them if I wanted to. 2)I left out anything in the Christmas genre because I see that as a gray area. 3)A few of these albums get so little or no airplay that I don't think they should count, but I'm keeping them on the list. 4)There are some on this list that I can't believe I don't own legitimately. It's ridiculous, I have no excuse.]
Albums that technically shouldn't be on my iPod.
(I have no interest in discussing how music downloads affect the recording industry.)
EDIT: These acquisitions did not come entirely from downloading. Nearly half were ripped from friends' CDs, which is an issue I meant to address separately but forgot. It's all part of the same larger problem though.
