Originally posted by: PinwiZ
Originally posted by: Joxer
Originally posted by: TheFamilyMan
Not deal-crapping here, but Just use allofmp3.com and be about as legal as you can be in this day and age.
They have around 700,000 or so songs available at approximately $.04 - $.05 per song and albums go for around $.70 or so.
Good track record, good customer service, and an all-around good interface to get what you want.
Legal site? The main page defaults to russian, and the company, media services inc, is based in Russia. 0.70 cents for a newly released album screams piracy to me...especially from a Russian site. Their "legal info" link at the top also comments that they base their "rights" to sell the music on a russian law, and take no responsibility for non-russian users
The legality of allofmp3 has been debated time and again in different threads. They are legal in Russia, they're copyright system is different there than here, so basically they aren't getting gouged by the recording industry like we do here.
The question is whether it is legal for Americans to use it, and according to some pretty sound arguments I've read, it is legal to import (which is essentially what you're doing by downloading it) it here for your own use (you obviously can't share it once you get it though). So, if that argument holds, then it is legal to use.
As for this CD swapping thing (to get back on topic), it seems like an awful pain just to get a few songs you're looking for. Let alone how scratched the CDs are going to get (since they're just going from person to person it looks like, and not through a central point (ala Netflix), there's not much quality control going on).