[darktruth]

This will be an interesting topic to discuss and it's not a debate, you can start a separate topic on this if you like.

The question here is do you guys go and buy the physical music cd's or buy it by downloading it from online music stores? For me I tend to buy the physical cd's for music that I really liked listening to, maybe it's because I'm a collector but I feel it's more worth the money to actually buy music that you can physically keep along with the artworks. I know some people prefer buying it online because it's more convenient and cheaper for them than going out to get it when there's the possibility it's not even in stock.

Another reason that I don't really like buying music online are all the security and licenses you need to obtain to be able to listen to the music, it's kind of strict on the buyers because you payed for it yet you cannot use it as much as you would like (like limitations on how many times certain tracks can be played, burned etc). In a similar way, this is like the copy controls incorporated into the cd's but even with that there are ways to bypass it, this is not to also mention the recent lawsuit brought against SonyBMG (I think it was that company if I remember correctly) with the security risks from those copy control software installed onto your computer once you insert those music cd's in.

This is also interesting to see the new ways of buying music as in the UK and US, downloads are now counted towards the music charts and it looks like in the near future compact music discs won't exist anymore and everything will be online.