I do that quite frequently though. I generally won't buy an album/discography until I know that the discography/album is good so I pirate the shit out of them. I wouldn't waste my money on blindly buying an album, even if it is by a band I like, although the only albums I pay for blindly is any CoF albums or Insomnium because I know them to be of good material.
There's also an argument floating around that it's good advertising, this whole pirating melarky. Which is why whenever I download music I let other people listen to it because there is a chance that they buy the music and show other people it, who might buy the music. My mate, who's in band, says that people who pirate music should be lynched and has yet to take in the fact that pirating music has upsides as well as pitfalls for the artist.
|