How do you pay for music?

Hi MrWallet

As cheaply as possible!! At this current time music is an added expense that I just can't justify. So at home it is generally Spotify - with a free account. This doesn't allow you to download or anything but you can listen to most songs at home.

We purchase CD's for the car but only if they are on special. We do not own Ipod's or Mp3 players so no expense there!

I usually just download them from iTunes straight onto my iPod but I guess I only use this for ease of use! I have never used a subscription service as I don't think I would end up getting enough use out of them but at only £5 per month to listen to anything you want (obviously without downloading) seems pretty good!

I'm still on CDs but sometimes I download from iTunes. Never heard of spotify before but will have to look it up.

I use Spotify with ads for free access to music at home. When I want MP3s for my car, I tend to buy from Tesco Music or Amazon, but that's extremely rare and I tend to buy an album a year, maximum.

Often Amazon link you to one of their non-UK sites and the cost of downloading music is considerably cheaper (0.29p). I have also found HMV are reasonably priced (well cheaper than iTunes). Another site I know of is www.gomusic.com Where the latest Kings of Leon 'Come Around Sundown' can be purchased for $1.76, you have to register with the site.

The FREE download sites everyone should know about are Last.fm this has a healthy collection of free mp3 downloads, as does the daddy of the free music sites; mp3.com.

Even though I download, I love buying CD's, there is something very real about the feel and touch of the CD, I felt the same about vinyl records too.

Hope this helps?

I buy CDs, but only occasionally brand new ones, mostly I buy them really cheaply from charity shops. I much prefer buying something physical as opposed to a download. I still have all of my much loved vinyl and drawers full of cassette tapes! Must admit I don't play the tapes that often though, too much hassle to find the track I want.

I still buy CDs, although I am purchasing them online, ebay is a great place to buy CDs at a fraction of the cost of the highstreet, especially if they're no longer in the charts!

I'm probably going to be castigated for saying that I use LimeWire for downloading music but I don't abuse the system and it is mainly certain artists that my daughter is keen on that I will download and then transfer into my itunes library or certain songs that I want if I am making a dvd of holiday photographs and want a particular track or style of music. For example I downloaded a few Gipsy King tracks when I was making a dvd of photographs from our holiday to Mexico earlier this year. My daughter probably has less than 2 dozen tracks and over the last few years I would say I have downloaded about 100 songs. I do occasionally buy CD's but it is very rare as I would rather read a book than listen to music. I looked at the new Taylor Swift CD for my daughter yesterday and priced it up on Amazon and saw that I could download the tracks for less than half what it would cost to buy the CD. I will probably get her the CD for Christmas and then the tracks she really likes I will use LimeWire to download them onto the PC.

I love my music and even though I am not a teenager any more, i do love Spotify to research and find some tracks I love to listen over and over again. Very occasionally I will pay to download if the track is something I want to keep but more often than not I will source the track on a CD and seek to buy it cheaply, even secondhand, via Ebay or Amazon. I have bought whole CD albums for as little as 99p or £1.99 this way rather than pay an £7.99 album download price. And a CD is pretty much for life and can always go on my iPod without difficulty. But having said that, there will always be tracks that I find and simply adore and will pay a 79p download fee there and then. But I always explore the cheap CD option first!

Hi, I like to buy CD's maybe from Play.com or Amazon.
We own an old Sony 4 stack system with a record player, twin cassettes,radio and 5 slot cd player.
We love it to bits and often play our very eclectic taste including the scratchy old vinyls lp's and singles.
Neither of us own mp3s and can't see us doing so for the foreseeable future but never say never, anyhow by the rate things are changing there'll be a new gizmo out anytime soon.