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.
(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar - The Guild
(I'm the One That's) Cool - The Guild
1,000 Ships - Rachel Platten
1234 - Feist
3 Small Words - Josie and the Pussycats
7 - Prince
Airplanes - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams
All the Same to Me - Anya Marina
Allouette - The Delta Rhythm Boys
Are You Ready - The Shondes
Asia no Junshin - Puffy AmiYumi
Atarashii Hibi - Puffy AmiYumi
Atom Bomb - Fluke
Bad Horse Death Note - Tom Smith
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC
Banana Splits - The Dickies
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
Bang Bang - K'naan
Because I'm Awesome - The Dollyrots
Boogie Woogie no. 5 - Puffy AmiYumi
Bourgeois Shangri-La - Miss Li
Brand New Day - Lindsey Ray with Tim Myers
Brighter Than the Sun - Colbie Caillat
Bulletproof - La Roux
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Carousel - Vanessa Carlton
Child (Inside) - Qkumba Zoo
Comeback Kid - Sleigh Bells
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Days Are Forgotten - Kasabian (added 4-24-12)
Dispensary Girl - Wax
Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine
Don't Stop - Gin Wigmore
DooDoo - Kosha Dillz
Empire State of Mind - Jay Z + Alicia Keys
Fatty Boom Boom - Die Antwoord
Float On - Modest Mouse
Get a Clue - Simon & Milo
Get It Daddy - Sleeper Agent
Gimme Sympathy - Metric
Good Life - OneRepublic
Hang It Up - The Ting Tings
Happypeople - Skoop On Somebody
Haruka Kanata - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Hell to the No - Glee Cast
Hoodie Ninja - mc chris
How I Could Just Kill A Man - Charlotte Sometimes
How We Do (Party) - Rita Ora (added 5-1-12)
I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters
I Fink U Freeky - Die Antwoord
I Hear Noises - Tegan and Sara
I Think I Can - The Pillows
I'm Happy But You Don't Like Me - Asobi Seksu
Into the Wild (Live) - LP
Jimmy Olsen's Blues - Spin Doctors
Junk of the Heart (Happy) - The Kooks
Kick Ass - Mika vs RedOne
Kinda Outta Luck - Lana Del Rey
Let Go - The Postmarks
Let Me Blow Ya Mind - Eve feat. Gwen Stefani
Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) - The Reunion
Lights - Ellie Goulding
Like a G6 - Far East Movement
Live Your Life - Yuna
Long Walk Back - The Rifles
Loser Like Me - Glee Cast
Lost My Music - Aya Hirano
Love is an Unfamiliar Name - The Duke Spirit
Love Letter to Japan - The Bird and the Bee
Make Me Wanna Die - The Pretty Reckless
Meter Feeder - Hail Mary Mallon
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
Music Is My Hot Hot Sex - CSS
Neptune City - Nicole Atkins
New Soul - Yael Naim
No Time (Beats Mix) - The Heavy
Norgaard - The Vaccines
Now We Can See - The Thermals
Ombra Mai Fu - Jackie Evancho
Over My Head - Lit
Over the Rainbow - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Party In The U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus
Power - Kanye West
Price Tag- Jessie J
Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
Pure Imagination - Glee Cast
Rainbow Connection - The Muppets
Rave On - M. Ward feat. Zooey Deschanel
Remedy - Little Boots
Ride on Shooting Star - The Pillows
Rock N Roll High School - Shonen Knife
Rolling In the Deep - Adele
Run Runaway - Great Big Sea
Saviour - LIGHTS
Schokolade - Tok Tok Tok
Shake It Out - Florence + The Machine
Shoelaces - The Submarines
Sixteen Saltines - Jack White (added 5-19-12)
Slink (A Hymn) - Locksley ("The Good Guys" theme)
Snakes On a Plane (Bring It) - Cobra Starship
So Good - B.o.B.
Some Nights - Fun. (added 5-19-12)
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Stand Up - The Prodigy
Starships - Nicki Minaj (added 5-19-12)
Starry Eyed - Ellie Goulding
Stay Useless - Cloud Nothings (added 5-7-12)
Stay Young, Go Dancing - Death Cab for Cutie
Symphonies - Dan Black feat. Kid Cudi
Tank! - Seatbelts
Telegrams to Mars - Annie Little
The Bird That You Can't See - The Apples in Stereo
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) - Black Sheep
The Golden Age - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
The Greatest - Cat Power
The Light Before We Land - The Delgados
The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson
Tongue Tied - Grouplove (added 5-19-12)
Vagrancy (from "Samurai Champloo")
Video Games - Lana Del Rey
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram
Waltz For Zizi - Seatbelts
We Are Young - Fun. (added 5-19-12)
We Live Underground - Lights On
We Won't Run - Sarah Blasko
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What We're All About - Sum 41
White Nights - Oh Land
Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - She & Him
Young Folks - Dawn Landes
Zombies on Your Lawn - Laura Shigihara
Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss