They say you can tell alot about a person from their record collection. Or CD collection, or something like that. So... I suggest you look at mine. But then, I also think you can tell alot about a person by borrowing their mp3 player. Failing that, you can at least have a look-see what's playing on mine. So, what's on my mp3 player (which is a 1 GB Sansa, btw)? Oh, bunches of things. Sometimes I add something, sometimes I remove something. You know how it is. Um... I must say, I've been downloading (and ripping) mp3s for years now, but I never got an mp3 player until shortly after Christmas 2007 (might've bought it in January 2008, I'm not sure). In the past, I mostly downloaded from various file sharing programs. I think I started in an era where there was some question as to the legality. At this point, I suppose it's fairly common to call it "illegal downloading," which I still don't have much of a problem with, though I don't do it so much anymore, myself. Partly because I have trouble these days getting any P2P program to actually work, partly because I have a wee bit more money than I used to (though I still frequently agonize over whether I can really afford to be paying 99cents for an mp3 from Amazon). But mostly just because mp3s taste better when you pay for them.
There have always been times when I have ripped mp3s from CDs I own, quite legally, so there's nothing wrong with that. And there have always been times when I have downloaded free mp3s legally, from one website or another, where they were offered by the artist or label or what have you. Nowadays I mostly pay to download from Amazon, though. (Or occasionally other sites that sell mp3s legally.) Of course, there are also times I can't find an mp3 or album offering a song I want anywhere, so sometimes I actually create them myself, by converting video to audio and then just taking out the song portion... which may very well mean I illegally download the video in the first place... or maybe I burn it off the TV specifically to rip a song. I dunno. Whatever, I don't feel that bad about it, especially if it's something I couldn't find a DVD of for sale, or if it's something I never would have bought, anyway. So it's not like anyone's losing any potential profits off me, nor are they losing hard copies of anything that they could sell to someone else.
Whatevs. The point is, there are songs on my mp3 player I've paid for, songs I've gotten free legally, songs I've gotten free not so legally, songs I've ripped, mp3s I've created (legally or not so legally) that didn't seem to be available by any other means. And I can't always remember which are which (except obviously for the ones I made myself, and most of the ones I've paid for recently). Therefore: what was I going for with this? Oh yeah, therefore: don't sue me or arrest me or anything, cuz... I'm a good guy, and you don't know if I obtained some stuff here legally or not. And no one's been hurt. The end.
1234 - Feist
19/2000 - Gorillaz
3 Small Words - Josie and the Pussycats
7 - Prince
Across the Universe - Fiona Apple
Aguas de Marco - Elis Regina & Tom Jobim
All the Same to Me - Anya Marina
Around the Bend - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Around the World (La la la la La) - ATC
Asia no Junshin - Puffy AmiYumi
Atarashii Hibi - Puffy AmiYumi
Atom Bomb - Fluke
B-Boy Stance - k-os
Bad Horse Death Note - Tom Smith
Bad Things - Jace Everett
Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC
Basket Case - Green Day
Battle Cry - Nujabes
BBQ Party - Shonen Knife
Big Bills - Flosstradamus featuring Caroline Polachek
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Boogie Woogie no. 5 - Puffy AmiYumi
Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
Bouncing Liqourish Bears - Joker's Daughter
Bourgeois Shangri-La - Miss Li
Bruises - Chairlift
Buddy Holly - Weezer
Ça Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Can You Picture That? - The Electric Mayhem
Caramelldansen (Speedycake Remix) - Caramell
Cellphone - Tiny Masters of Today
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
Come Monday Night - God Help the Girl
Come On Eileen - Save Ferris
Come On Get Higher - Matt Nathanson
Count It Off - The Saturday Knights
Daylight - Matt & Kim
Don't Stop Believin' - Glee Cast
Downloader's Blues - JJ Appleton
Dragostea din tei - O-Zone
duesouth Theme - Jay Semko
El Paso - Old 97s
End of the World - Dead By Sunrise
Everlong (acoustic) - Foo Fighters
Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop - Landon Pigg
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Female of the Speces - Space
Fett's Vette - mc chris
Fire Water Burn - The Bloodhound Gang
Fireflies - Owl City
Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Flathead - The Fratellis
Float On - Modest Mouse
Furr - Blitzen Trapper
Gay Fish (South Park)
Get a Clue - Simon & Milo
GO!!! - Flow
Gold Digger - Kanye West
Good Riddance - Green Day
Greensleeves - Vanessa Carlton
Habañera (Stronger Than We Know) - Lindsey Haun
happypeople- Skoop On Somebody
Hare Hare Yukai - Aya Hirano
Haruka Kanata - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Hey Hey Glamour Kills - The Bay State
How I Could Just Kill A Man - Charlotte Sometimes
I Know What I Am - Band of Skulls
I M Ninja - Neu Tickles
I Think I Can - The Pillows
I'm Happy But You Don't Like Me - Asobi Seksu
Immigrant Song - Tomoyasu Hotei
Kiss Me Again (Stuttering) - Ben's Brother
Knife & Fork - Oreskaband
Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn
Kusu Kalkmaz - Sultana
LDN - Lily Allen
Legend of a Cowgirl - Imani Coppola
Legend of Zelda - Mr. Bungle
Let Your Love Flow - Petra Haden
Letter From an Occupant - The New Pornographers
Lickitung - Punkemon
Life Has Been Good To Me - French Stewart
Let Go - The Postmarks
Life is Like a Boat - Rie Fu
Lost My Music - Aya Hirano
Love and Joy - Kimura Yuki
Love is an Unfamiliar Name - The Duke Spirit
Love So Pure - Puffy AmiYumi
Lyubochka - Masha i Medvedi
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Shiny Toy Guns
Minority - Green Day
Mister Man - Mastah E featureing Bizzy B
Movin' Right Along - The Muppets
New Soul - Yael Naim
New Wave Jacket - Polysics
New Year's Prayer - Jeff Buckley
No Myth - Michael Penn
Novocaine For the Soul - Eels
O Shot - The Gay Blades
Oh, Canada - Five Iron Frenzy
One Tribe - Black Eyed Peas
Ordinary Girl - Superhum
Over My Head - Lit
Over the Rainbow - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Party, Join Us (Shin Chan closing theme; English)
People Got A Lotta Nerve - Neko Case
Pepper - Butthole Surfers
Pinocchio - Oreskaband
Prelude 12/21 - A.F.I.
Punk Ass Bitch - Wheatus
Pure - The Lightning Seeds
Push th' Little Daisies - Ween
Quality Control - Jurassic 5
Rainbow Connection - The Muppets
Ready Steady Go - Paul Oakenfold
Ready Steady Go - L'Arc~en~Ciel
Rico vacilon - Karl Zéro
Ride on Shooting Star - The Pillows
Saviour - The Lights
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sci-Fi Wasabi - Cibo Matto
Shake Hands With Beef - Primus
She's Electric - Oasis
Shine - L'Arc~en~Ciel
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Skirt - Chara
Skylight - Overseer
Snakes on a Plane - Cobra Starship
Sobakasu - Judy and Mary
Start a Revolution - Aimee Allen
Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy
Stereo Nights - Takkyu Ishino
Suite From Pleasantville - Randy Newman
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Technologic - Daft Punk
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
The Bird That You Can't See - The Apples in Stereo
The Boondocks Theme - Asheru
The Child Inside - Qkumba Zoo
The Coast is Always Changing - Maximo Park
The Greatest - Cat Power
The Honey Tree - The Mostar Diving Club
The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson
Tre Sorelle - Fiamma Fumana
Tres Delinquentes - Delinquent Habits
Un Monde Sans Danger - Julien Lamassonne
Under the Milky Way - Sia
United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch
Up, Up, Up - Rose Falcon
Vagrancy (from Samurai Champloo)
Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram
Walking on Air - Kerli
Whachadoin? - N.A.S.A. (feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner)
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What We're All About - Sum 41
Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx
Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel
Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - She & Him
Young Folks - Dawn Landes
Your Woman - White Town
Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss