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By: Matt SF

Matt SF — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:01:16 +0000

@ Retirement Savior

Yeah, I considered mentioning Limewire in the post, but there are tons of potential legals issues that come with the P2P file sharing thing.

Personally, I remain skeptical of its legality and will remain a nonuser until the music industry stops suing little girls for downloading Brittany’s latest single. For me, it’s just not worth the risk.

Give Slacker.com a look if you get a chance. They toss in a 60 sec advertisement here and there, but if I had a choice b/n Slacker and Pandora, I would go with Slacker.

By: Retirement Savior

Retirement Savior — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:32:10 +0000

I had heard of Pandora, but had never checked it out until last week. It is amazing.

Otherwise, I’ve been a Limewire user for years, not that I recommend that sort of thing, of course.

By: Matt SF

Matt SF — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:57:16 +0000

@ Patrick

I used to be an album guy, but it’s so hard to find a band/artist that actually makes the time and creativity investment to make a complete album. These days, it seems like an album is 2 or 3 singles, then packed with 10 filler tunes to qualify as an “album”.

Slacker is pretty good stuff… I spend a lot of time there. Lots of options to customize the tunes you want to hear.

By: Matt SF

Matt SF — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:49:02 +0000

@ Tom,

I’ve given Last.fm a few tries, but in my experience, they are a little slow at pulling in the new tracks/album. So by the time they stream a few songs I like, I’ve probably listened to it 100x on YouTube.

I never really had large CD collection like that… maybe 50-100 CDs total. I was that guy who bought a used CD for $8 to $10 at the Record Exchange, and sold it back at $5 a few weeks later.

By: Matt SF

Matt SF — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:27:30 +0000

@ SJ

Hmm, might have to checkout imeem. I used Napster’s subscription service once it went legal, but that didn’t last very long.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:13:04 +0000

I love Pandora and online radio stations, but I’m more of an album guy and prefer full length albums than listening to singles or a theme like on the streaming audio websites. So I listen to the radio or an online station to find a group or artist I like, then I buy a couple CDs a year. But only a handful at most. In the last 3.5 years I have probably purchased fewer than 10 CDs. (I have about 500 from my younger days…).

I’ll be sure to check out Slacker.com. :)

By: Tom @ Canadian Finance Blog

Tom @ Canadian Finance Blog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:02:05 +0000

Thanks for pointing out Slacker, will have a look at it. I was using last.fm, but lately just regular radio.

I have around 900 CDs, none older than 1998. Back then I became addicted to using Napster with my dial-up modem!

By: SJ

SJ — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:41:28 +0000

I use imeem for music now instead of pandora/youtube… you have to join but it’s pretty good.

There’s more a focus of playlists but you can search for songs (instead of themes like pandora) and auto-play (vs. youtube)