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I downloaded an mp3 from itunes once. It was "Shot", by Neil Young. I downloaded it on my girlfriend's computer while she was living in a different city. I took it home on my flash drive and found out I couln't play it away from her computer. Fuck Apple and fuck their .m4a files.

I will never buy another mp3 until there is a distribution system that allows me to buy unprotected MP3s.

CDs are wonderful. CD shopping is fun. The art is worth it, and more importantly I like to have to sit through "bloated albums" because the "rubbish" consists of all the songs that it takes effort to sit through and understand the album as an album. The singles on a sonic youth album, for example, are never as important as the album itself. They're just catchy songs to grab your attention to the rest of the masterpiece.

I consider mp3s a means to distribute a band's name without major label marketing, and whenever I find a new band with a myspace profile that pumps incredible new music into my ears I only wish I could pick up the album.

I think a lot of other people feel the same.