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
A Place in Time (Extended) - Amanda Abizaid
Across the Universe - Fiona Apple
Age 19 - Suga Shikao
Aguas de Marco - Elis Regina & Tom Jobim
Ah, Singapore - Shonen Knife
Aicha - Khaled
Alfie - Lily Allen
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
Around the Bend - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Asia no Junshin - Puffy AmiYumi
Asterisk - ORANGE RANGE
At the Hundredth Meridian - The Tragically Hip
Atarashii Hibi - Puffy AmiYumi
Atom Bomb - Fluke
Bad Horse Death Note - Tom Smith
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
Bad Things - Jace Everett
Ballad of Serenity - Sonny Rhodes
Basket Case - Green Day
Battle Cry - Nujabes
Big Bang Baby - Stone Temple Pilots
Birthday Cake - Cibo Matto
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Boogie Woogie no. 5 - Puffy AmiYumi
Brackish - Kittie
Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
Butter of 69 - Butter 08
Ça Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu
Can You Picture That? - The Electric Mayhem
Caramelldansen (Speedycake Remix) - Caramell
Chicks Dig Giant Robots - Deathwish IX
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
Club Foot - Kasabian
Come On Eileen - Save Ferris
Common People - William Shatner
Cooler Society - Oreskaband
Diva Dance - Sarah Brightman
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Downloader's Blues - JJ Appleton
Dragostea din tei - O-Zone
Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle - Dethklok
El Paso - Old 97s
Everlong (acoustic) - Foo Fighters
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Fett's Vette - mc chris
Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Flathead - The Fratellis
Fourteen - The Vandals
Fun For Me - Moloko
Galaxy Song - Monty Python
Get a Clue - Simon & Milo
GO!!! - Flow
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
Hey Pachuco! - Royal Crown Revue
Hold On Tight - Samantha Fox
How Do I Feel - Hoku
How I Could Just Kill A Man - Charlotte Sometimes
I M Ninja - Neu Tickles
I Want Candy - mc chris
Iko Iko - Amy Holland
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Jerk It Out - Caesars
Just Communication - Two-Mix
Just One Person - The Muppets (The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson)
kandy pop - bis
Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit
kill yr boyfriend - bis
Kiss Me Again (Stuttering) - Ben's Brother
Knife & Fork - Oreskaband
Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto
Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn
La Donna e Mobile - Luciano Pavarotti
Ladies and Gentlemen - Saliva
LDN - Lily Allen
Legend of a Cowgirl - Imani Coppola
Legend of Zelda - Mr. Bungle
Let's Push Things Forward - The Streets
Letter From an Occupant - The New Pornographers
Lickitung - Punkemon
Life is Like a Boat - Rie Fu
Lose Yourself - Eminem
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
Made in Japan - Pato Fu
Minority - Green Day
Mister Man - Mastah E featureing Bizzy B
Movin' Right Along - The Muppets
My Pace - SunSet Swish
Nakanaide - Mayu Kitaki
Neko Mimi Mode - Dimitri From Paris
New Soul - Yael Naim
New Wave Jacket - Polysics
No Myth - Michael Penn
Oh, Canada - Five Iron Frenzy
Once and Never Again - The Long Blondes
One Way Ticket (Because I Can) - LeAnn Rimes
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Ordinary Girl - Superhum
Over My Head - Lit
Party, Join Us (Shin Chan closing theme; English)
Pay Me My Money Down - Bruce Springsteen
Pilot Candidate (opening theme)
Pinocchio - Oreskaband
Poirot (opening theme)
Pon de Replay - Rihanna
Prelude 12/21 - A.F.I.
Pure - The Lightning Seeds
Push th' Little Daisies - Ween
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Rainbow Connection - The Muppets
Random - Lady Sovereign
Ready Steady Go - Paul Oakenfold
Ready Stead Go - L'Arc en Ciel
Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell
Rico vacilon - Karl Zéro
Ride on Shooting Star - The Pillows
Run Run Away - Great Big Sea
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sci-Fi Wasabi - Cibo Matto
Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals
Second Week of Deer Camp - Da Yoopers
She's Electric - Oasis
Shounen Heart - HOME MADE Kazoku
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Skirt - Chara
Skylight - Overseer
Smile - Lily Allen
Snakes on a Plane - Cobra Starship
Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
Sobakasu - Judy and Mary
Song For Jedi - Dionysos
Space Twist - Davoli
Spectacular Spider-Man - The Tender Box
Start a Revolution - Aimee Allen
Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
Stereo Nights - Takkyu Ishino
Suite From Pleasantville - Randy Newman
Sympathique - Pink Martini
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Technologic - Daft Punk
Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
Tell it to the Kids - bis
The Beer Song - They Might Be Giants
The Boondocks Theme - Asheru
The Child Inside - Qkumba Zoo
The Click - Good Charlotte
The Coast is Always Changing - Maximo Park
The Greatest - Cat Power
The Philosophers Drinking Song - Monty Python
The Siege of Camylarde - Trevor Jones
Three O'Clock Fairy (from Sailor Moon... one of the movies, I forget)
Tom's Diner - DNA featuring Suzanne Vega
Tres Delinquentes - Delinquent Habits
Tribute - Tenacious D
Un Monde Sans Danger - Julien Lamassonne
Up, Up, Up - Rose Falcon
Upidee - The Muppets
Vagrancy (from Samurai Champloo)
Vulcan Ears - Millencolin
Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram
Walkin' on the Sun - Smash Mouth
Walking on Air - Kerli
Went Walking - Bosque Brown
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What We're All About - Sum 41
When You Wasn't Famous - The Streets
Whistle Stop - Roger Miller
Who's Leading You Now - HorrorPops
Wishing on a Star - Miriam Stockley
You Can Fly! (from Peter Pan)
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss