I simply can't be bothered to go out and buy it. In addition to that there's the fact that ALOT of the music I want (around 85%) isn't available where I live. Plus I'm going to digitalize it anyways and I don't want to throw away the CDs, because that's the way I am - which means they just add to the mountain of clutter I already have. I don't buy music online because... well, because I can get it for free. :/
Yes you're right. Well I'm a (hobby) DJ and the music i need is full length unmixed tracks.
You CAN NOT buy that in a store anymore. There you can get only mix compilations etc. thats completely useless for my purposes.
Back in time, I went to a vinyl store and bought the vinyl for ~8 Euros. There were like 3 tracks on it, but i only wanted one in most cases. So basically 8 Euros for one track, really expensive.
Now there are great possibilities. I get most of my music from
http://dance-tunes.com/
Depending what packet you buy, you can get one track for 1 Euro. Perfect 320kbit mp3, full length, any copyright management shit.
It's great. And thanks to Traktor Scratch you still have the great feeling of mixing with vinyl
https://pic.armedcats.net/i/i-/i-d-k/2010/01/02/Zimmer_02.jpg
(that isn't actually my equipment... i just googled for a picture)
But instead of carrying a bag with 20kg of vinyl discs one mini thumb-drive does it all.
Times were never better for purposes like that!!! For me it made a lot of positive progress in the last few years. But i still share tracks with my friends though..