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Story: Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study

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I don't personally use a download service. I subscribe to Musicmatch Radio, but that's it. However when recently visiting a friend, who does use a couple of download services, I did manage to snag a couple of tracks I used to love and which I had on tape until they got chewed up.

He tends to collect rare tracks that either aren't currently available or which he has on tape or LP somewhere in the attic.

We both have vast CD/LP collections, which we do still add to. But we don't buy at anything like the rate at which we used to - having switched to DVD's. I now have at least as many DVD's as CD's, and I have around 300 CD's. I bought around 3 CD's last year, down from about 3-4 a month, BUT I don't have any ripped music that I don't already own in some form or another... Already this year, I have bought around 15 CD's and my friend probably twice that number.

I could easily download gigabytes of ripped CD's, but, I like to have the originals there. Having them ripped makes listening to a variety of music much simpler than having to dig my way through mountains of CD's and playing 1-2 tracks off each.

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