i remember buy cd's and listening to them over and over again waiting a new cd to come out in the stores. i think i even bought a pack of the old kiss show's and live sets on ebay, back in 2001. you know the people who burn cds and sell them online. pretty lame but that was my only acess to new choons untill i got a computer in late 02.

how did you guys get ahold of your music

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Buying CD whenever available...

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i bought all GU discs. and anything else that looked appealing. but i remember my rent only being like $200 back in those days too. back when i had 2 or 3 roomates. now i have no roomates (gf not included) and cant afford a fucking thing.

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^^^good thing we don't have to spend $$$$ on cd's now

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I listened to GU002 over and over again.

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spent every Tuesday at the CD store -- and virtually every spare dime on music...

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i probably got into EDM because of online downloads. (thank you napster)

everything before, i bought on cd. i had like 500 cds before they were stolen.

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before soulseek and Napster I used a great great website called AudioGalaxy. That shit was awsome! Neat blue site with white and yellow lettering. I remember those days. It was around '98-'99. I hooked up my entire office / company with the "satellites" you would need to download from various ftp's and stufff. Thats when I started collecting most of my 80's tracks and found great sets from Digweed / Sasha.

Good times.

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Audio Cassette...

Used to record my favorite tunes off the radio and make my own mix tapes. I think I got my frist kiss 100 set from here. What a night that was.

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Cassette Tapes... I use to tape old school mixes off the radio here in Indy.

Back in the day when Flavor Flav was kind of a hard ass and not a T.V. celeb.

I can still remember the 1st time I saw a dual deck tape player and that was the shit!

Thanks, that was fun remembering that time!

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i used to get so mad wanting to get a hold of new music

now there is too much can't keep up

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[quote=toasty]spent virtually every spare dime on music...[/quote] me too.

well, i still do actually ... it's just that i buy records instead of cd's now. :what

[quote=BureOne]before soulseek and Napster I used a great great website called AudioGalaxy. That shit was awsome! Neat blue site with white and yellow lettering. I remember those days. It was around '98-'99. I hooked up my entire office / company with the "satellites" you would need to download from various ftp's and stufff. Thats when I started collecting most of my 80's tracks and found great sets from Digweed / Sasha.

Good times.[/quote] i used audio galaxy also. man, i remember getting some of my first derrick carter sets off there. there was one satellite that i was always on ... i think it was "houseyourbody". ahh ... memories. :D

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so... in a few words, everyone of you are soulseekers now or what?? what about dont let the vinyl die and stuff like that?. Its not like i dont download from slsk, in fact most of my tracks are from there, but a few weeks ago i was mullered by some of you because i do that.

ps:before the internet i wasnt really into the music, so i used to buy pop/rock/rap/hiphop/dance/etc music, everything that were available in stores.

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[quote=sakio pod]i used to get so mad wanting to get a hold of new music

now there is too much can't keep up[/quote]

Same here hard to keep up...alot of lower qualtiy tracks to clean out as well...

I used to actually pay for my music as well...i found this guy on ebay from turkey that had tons and tons of live stuff....so i would pay him like 2 or 3 bux for a cd....thats how i got all my stuff till i foound about audiogalaxy in 2001

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[quote=hansh20]so... in a few words, everyone of you are soulseekers now or what?? what about dont let the vinyl die and stuff like that?.[/quote] no, not everyone.

i feel very strongly about not downloading edm releases to play out. the only things that i download (mostly from slsk) are live sets, rare/out of print stuff for my own personal listening (not playing publicly), and tracks that i have recently purchased on vinyl that i'm waiting to be delivered.

i don't agree with downloading tracks for free to play out in public. there are plenty of pay sites for that.

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[quote=hansh20]?. Its not like i dont download from slsk, in fact most of my tracks are from there, but a few weeks ago i was mullered by some of you because i do that. quote]

yeah that will piss off alot of producers/djs

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What! There was life before the internet?

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No SLSK here. With becoming a post whore and work, I have just enough time to grab some sets off [ms]. Not into d/l copyrighted music. I work to buy the music and they work to give me music to buy (great circle imo). ;)

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Ahh, before MS etc I used to sit up late at night for the Essential Mix (back when it seemed that most weeks was a decent dj as opposed to now when I never tune in). I have loads of old EM's, all on cassette with the inlay card for it that Mixmag used to provide (remember those!)

Now I am in the same boat as you lot - too much to filter through, most of it gash to be honest. but it's worthwhile when I find a set I really dig i.e. Nick Warren's JustMusic March 2006 mix awesome

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I used to buy a shit load of cds all the time. I still buy cd but not as often. Mainly buy just the cds I like after listen to the promo version.

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I used to go to Tower Records on Newbury st (Now its Virgin)here in Boston almost every Monday night at midnight cause thats when the new cds would come out .I'd Blow half my paycheck at the time on cds.anything on Global Underground I bought.Those Mdma mixes from Dj Scribble & Anthony Acid All the old Ministry of Sound Annuals back when boy george was putting them out and when Tall Paul played good stuff.Then I'd say around 98 I found Napster and ever since then i was hooked on Downloading from the internet.After Napster shut down I switched to Audiogalaxy.From Audiogalaxy I went back & fourth between Limewire & Kazaa.Now It's Slsk.I hardly ever go to Virgin to buy cds anymore unless its something I really want.I'll download it first off of slsk the buy it in the store.Man some of these new compilations are some damn Expensive.I got lucky I bought Global Gathering Godskitchen for $10 but when that first came out it was $32.99.I've even seen some cds for $35.99.gad damn imports kill me.

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back before all that stuff. i didn't listen to electronic music. I was into very avant guarde musics. John Cage, Stockhausen, O'Rourke, Zorn, Riley, Reich, Glass.

I didn't get into computers till 98. And still didn't know about napster and all that until 2000.

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I listened to MTV/radio pop before the Internet. I was a kid :not me:

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^^^ thank god i don't listen to that anymore

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[quote=fumanchu182]Audio Cassette...

Used to record my favorite tunes off the radio and make my own mix tapes. I think I got my frist kiss 100 set from here. What a night that was.[/quote]

i used to record my sets on tape too. i found a few of them a couples months back, fun stuff :) back when i was playing the dark scary shit(moshic and zidan).......fun stuff

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chronic thumb tweedler behind the counters of a record store

i still get my free music .... good times those were :)

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I'm a little late, but here I go...

before internet --- made tons of mixtapes.

after windows3.11 & internet ---

warez & doom over LAN. (collected and made custom WADS with NIN music, etc.) :RockOn:

spanned shitloads of floppies using winzip to copy pirated disks.

played with fractals and cool visuals like acidwarp, etc.

did nothing for music except play with shockwave jukeboxes' and watch REAL media live shows like Beck (totally blew my mind at the time, anyone remember rocktropolis???).

Bought all my CD's and had a portable CD player with casette adapter. Eventually got my first MD player to make those mix tapes last longer with better quality.

mIRC chat started to become a thing over my 14.4 modem. Started my first smut collection. :lol:

you can go on and on with this subject...

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Before Audiogalaxy came into my life, I bought more records than I do now just because I get enough live sets I can listen to and enjoy. Without these opportunities I bought more mixed compilations than I do nowadays and spent a lot of money to buy live recordings from E-Bay. :roll: With the knowledge I have today, I would love to kick every single seller on E-Bay in his rotten butt for what they did (and still do).

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the internet was my sole enabler for pursuing electronic music. without it, i'd probably still be listening to jazz. (not to imply that my switch from electronic music to jazz was a progression or anything, just that that's what i was into before i got into this stuff)

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I used to buy cassettes and between me and my mates we'd tape and trade the essential mixes, like Greg said back when every week you'd get a really good DJ.....Still got a case full of them and the Mixmag inlays!!!.......That and living in my local record store for the best part of 97 - 99......

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I never got into audiogalaxy, I remember it being available however I used something called scour - best p2p program ever, as a result it was shutdown in a matter of months. My buddies used to go record shopping and pickup mix cd's for me. One of my first mix cimpilations was Chris Fortier - Trance America, great CD (Mara - Far from Grace mmm!!!).

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[COLOR="Cyan"][FONT="Verdana"][SIZE="15"]Mix Tapes![/SIZE][/FONT] ! 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1! ! ! ! !! !!!![/COLOR]

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i bought cds...tons of them. i remember having to pay like $30 for seaman's renaissance awakenings set. i still buy piles of cds, but its mostly jazz and artist albums. the market is flooded w/mix cds and there aren't too many worth buying IMO.
there are so many radio mixes and promo mixes that i just don't have time to listen and appreciate that many.
i guess its better to have too much music out than not enough...

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The only source of music for me when I started getting into EDM was audio cassettes and the Essential Mix, like the other audio cassette fans I still have loads of C120s kicking around my house and depsite the fact that I don't have anything to play them on I just cannot face trashing them:( My best investment was a hi fi with a timer so no staying up to press record...Happy Days:D

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i really started downloaded around 2003, before that was all cd's...i still buy cds but i usually dl live sets you cant buy anywhere.

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I bought lot's of cd's too, then I used a little app on mac called Hotline (which was eventually released for PC as well). It was through there I discovered Sasha and Digweed, and never looked back!

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I spent shitloads of money on CD's which are now getting dusty in the attic. Yeah well, don't listen to Sonic Youth or Nirvana and such anymore...

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I started with cassettes .. recording from the radio even .. dont miss those days, then switched to cds .. still buy most cds as they come out .. i'm not a fan of burnt cds, i prefer the real deal .. with the case etc .. the only thing i download and burn to cd is live sets which sometimes is better than the cds put out anyhow