Comments on: Buying Vs. Downloading For Free: The Better Financial Choice http://www.wealthjunkies.com/money/buying-vs-downloading-for-free-the-better-financial-choice/ Debt, Credit, Investing, and Money Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:08:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Polly Poorhouse http://www.wealthjunkies.com/money/buying-vs-downloading-for-free-the-better-financial-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-51892 Polly Poorhouse Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:37:56 +0000 http://www.wealthjunkies.com/?p=893#comment-51892 I could not agree more with your assessment. It makes good sense to pay for what you listen to or watch. Plus it has the added benefit of being the right thing to do. There are legitimate free sources of music--for example, I downloaded some wonderful music by the Beaux Arts Trio from NPR on the occasion of their last public performance. To save money, I may only buy one song rather than a whole album. From a financial point of view, I think the time I save by not having to search for illegal copies, having failed downloads, and ending up with poor quality results, more than compensates me for the very reasonable download costs for most things. I could not agree more with your assessment. It makes good sense to pay for what you listen to or watch. Plus it has the added benefit of being the right thing to do.

There are legitimate free sources of music–for example, I downloaded some wonderful music by the Beaux Arts Trio from NPR on the occasion of their last public performance.

To save money, I may only buy one song rather than a whole album.

From a financial point of view, I think the time I save by not having to search for illegal copies, having failed downloads, and ending up with poor quality results, more than compensates me for the very reasonable download costs for most things.

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