You ever bought a song on iTunes?

Apple announced Thursday that its iTunes store has now sold more than 5 billion songs.
I was curious to know the behavior of the mainstream crossfire user. You ever bought a song on iTunes?


= 5,000,000,000 songs
= 2,727 days since opening on 10/01/01
= average 1,833,516 songs / day
= 0.99 € / song
= 1,815,180 € / day
= 86,400 seconds / day
= 21 € / sec

Nice one :)
78.1 %
(995 votes)
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(40 votes)
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(161 votes)
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(64 votes)
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Yes, frequently: 0% :D
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
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After 20 votes i'm still the only one that bought a song on iTunes!
Gangsters!
wtf gast :D
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nowai ~.~
And what if you kinda hate itunes ;)

Keep it simple lend a cd in the libary and rip it and bring it back clean and original ;).
What's easier than clicking on a song and press "buy now" ?
You mean "keep it cheap" isn't it ;)
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what is easier then click "download" and get a whole discography
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I replied on the library post (go to it, pick cd, rip it, bring it back)
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on the library method you have a whole album at once for free (almost free but those 5 euro/year for 50+ cds doesn't realy matter). Paying for single tracks is just ridiculous imo
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remember the days you actually bought single's on cd? ^^

edit: mr illegal myself aswell
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I still have the caption jack single somewhere xD
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i wont tell anyone! :o)
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5 euro for one year renting cds in the libary with max of 5 cds each visit seems cheaper to mee ;)
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I like the player but I would never pay for an mp3
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No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
i kinda more believe that it is 21EUR per sec than 21000

afaik, billion is more used as thousand millions than million millions (at least i think that is the case now with itunes), didn't know in english billion had two meanings until i checked wikipedia
ble u can download almost everything so why would u
nigga plz, you ever buy a hooker?, a transvestite hooker
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
IMO it's about american billion, which has 9 zeros. u gave three 0 more, it's 5.000.000.000, not 5.000.000.000.000
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal
I can't remember the last time I legally brought any music or movies :-(

Occasionally buy games if I want to play online, but other than that I'm Mr. Illegal.
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
Yes, frequently:
0%
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you must be a real freeking idiot to pay for that
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal:
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal
Where is the option:

Only when I did won a free song download?
"You ever bought a song on iTunes?"

if you win a song, you didnt buy it...
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u rly from the uk?
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ofcourse not. he's twinzz
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\o/

mr. illegal
intresting poll!


mr illegal
unexpected results :D
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal
Who said he doesn't like music? -_-
Who the fuck would buy music from iTunes? You can get most of those records for the same price as a physical products, non comprised format, with booklets and media. Then rip it if you please.
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Where is the fucking "iTunes is a piece of shit and so is your face if you bought something there" option ?
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Poll is fixed.
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
lolled about poll votings
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal:
80.2%
(276 votes)
who buys music please?
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal:
79.6%
(293 votes)

i hope tosspot wont send logs of people who clicked to police

:D
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
I buy my music on http://www.nuclearblast-musicshop.de/
I like to support the bands that I listen to - even more when they are distributing via an independent label.
social worker :p
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download only.

tempting to buy to get good/same quality songs for movie use though.
no need to buy
Not to forget the music they didn't license and sell anyway. Piracy at its best.
I D/L stuff, and then I buy the music on a CD if I like it.
For instance I just downloaded some Pain of Salvation stuff, and I'm definately going to buy some records ASAP! It owns!
Really? I mean, REALLY? I hear people say that, that they download it first to see if they like it, then they buy the CD later, but I call bullshit on that. I'm not saying you don't do it, but I seriously doubt most people who say that actually do it.
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I have a lot of CDs, so I guess yes I do it..
There are some albums I like i haven't bought yet, but I'm planning to have a cd-buying-spree very soon :)
And I'm a sound quality geek, so I want the good music in a non-lossy-compressed format aswell
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there is nothing wrong with buying cds from non-mainstream artists.
itunes though sucks as a program and does not offer the music I listen to.
Not on iTunes, somewhere else
:)
that somewhere else is strongly suggesting another online "mp3" store
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your words :)
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I bought some on iTunes
nice options what about bying real cds?
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
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I bought some real CDs, but not that many tho.

itunes = nono

I'm Mr.Illegal >:E
hahaha xD
When i start making my own money, maybe i will start buying instaead of downloading, till then. mr illegal
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
everyone who chose "im mr illegal" will get busted. ive sued you already, coz i got ips n stuff. ahahhaahha
i bought only one music cd in my life xD ( was 7 years ago lol)
hahaha when u had no interentz :D
Internet is serious business!
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I bought 2 albums on Itunes. But it is .m4p and if you have to convert it, you lose quality. So that's a bad deal. Anywayz I am on a private torrent site. So bb Itunes -.-
I have bought a few CD's. But NEVAR will buy anything from itunes.
i download my music illegally, but when something is good, i'll pick it up on cd/lp most likely...
i would never buy digital audio/video.
vinyl>dvd>cd>all
I buy real CDs.
Not once, I buy my music from real record stores.
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal.
#6. NOT/NEVER-EVER from iTunes, but somewhere else obviously LLI ftw :)
when i give my money for music i dont want any crap mp3 or any other loss compression shit.
ok to listen some tektonik and britney mp3@56ko is good enough, but too bad it doesnt fit my tastes.

in the end it s cd or free(terrorist.communist.hackinglol.torrent)



omagad i ll be on the warez fusen listIII
oh noeeeessssSZZZ
I never buy anything from inet :P I usually go to shop!
i ve bought total of 347 songs on itunes.
I am very specific about the performers of my music, so I mostly buy/rip it from youtube or whatever, even though the quality is very bad sometimes. Me likes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nuR4zzkMZqM bad quality
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nuR4zzkMZqM&fmt=18 good quality

just add &fmt=18 after your youtube link :) fmt=6 is even better i think
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just wanted to show you the vid:DD
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gtfo we are not americans
Mostly everyone here on this site are kids so it's not surprise that they won't pay for anything unless they have to.

I've bought some songs through iTunes because it's very convenient, but not very smart. Previously you couldn't play your songs on anything else than Apple players (Quicktime, iPod, etc.), but now they're a bit more lenient – but still not good enough for me.

If I'm gonna pay for digital music downloads, then the files need to be of a *high quality*. FLAC, people – FLAC!
No way, I'm Mr. Illegal

only bought two songs from www.beatport.com
I buy CDs
Same ffs why are people so unkeen on helping their artists develop?
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The artist receives hardly any money from cd sales. It's a rip-off.
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So he gets a lot from mp3s sold on itunes? :D The times are hard for artists now. Live performances are zeh best and seem to be the most profitable thingy now \o/
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Yes. Just the way it always was.
Let's hope that the whole music industry will vanish. Artist don't need these big labels anymore and I'd rather give the artist some money instead of a label. They don't care for the music anyway.
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No way, I'm Mr. Illegal: 77.8% :XD
rofl that
would never buy music on zhe internetz
jaujaujauja Mr.Illegal XD
buying music ? Sounds like conspiracy for me
i had 2 songs for free with some coca cola bottles \o/
itunes sucks, worst program ever made (too many ipods are getting fucked because of it. foobar > itunes). I prefer to buy a real cd over something like this.
Where is the "I buy CDs?" option.... Just curious :)
as i read that that vote i was like

WTF r u joking
np Azure Ray - Beautiful Things Can Come From The Dark
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