[DaveyW]

Hi all,

Just read a Pumpkinman post referring to a File Sharing site "Chris Goes Rock"

Left me wondering what legit resources we all use to check out bands/artists we're not too familiar with, especially whole albums?

I tend to use SPOTIFY

It's OK for most things but struggles with some of the more obscure.

[Wayner]

I'm sorry, but checking out the whole album is like reading the whole newspaper, then putting it back on the stand.

Amazon offers a "sample" of musical tracks that should satisfy most, or perhaps the artists own website may offer samples.

I just heard on the radio about music theft, and it's huge. it's destroying the music industry, artist income, and the next target will be DVDs.

And I do agree with Dave, legit samples are the only way to go, then if you like, go support the artist and record company, so we can still have vinyl available to us.

Wayner

[orthobiz]

Being old fashioned, I tend to wait until I get the album. New stuff I will base on reviews and recommendations. Old stuff I will wait and wait until I pounce on the record when I find it. Since I collect music as a sickness, I'm not worried when a particular purchase doesn't pan out the way that I thought.

Almost impossible to scope things out on terrestrial radio, Sirius/XM seems to cut into songs and play almost like a playlist. I don't use Spotify. I have Slacker, I read it's a little bit better than Spotify but I don't know why as I don't use it.

Reading: I use musicangle.com, allmusic.com, popmatters.com, pitchfork.com. Babysue.com has a real weirdo racist kinda guy running it but he likes Badfinger so sometimes he's spot on with the music recommendations.

And don't forget Catch of the Day and Listening To Now right here on Audiocircle. But I guess these are reading resources and not listening resources!

Paul