To me personally, I'd be interested in buying a 2 CD set of ID4-complete, or the Armageddon-complete. These scores, for one reason or another, will never see the light of day in a legit pressing.

On the other hand, I understand that the artists (Arnold and HGW), will never get a cent from this, nor will the Record Labels.

1) I almost ALWAYS trade for them. Buying them profits the bootlegger, which I don't like to do.

2) I make every effort to own the original release -- if it is still available and for a reasonable price. That way, the composer gets his/her cut. (Example: I own a CD-R of the Gremlins bootleg, but I bought the official cassette.)

On the other hand, a CDR of something that's already a bootleg (e.g. the complete PREDATOR) seems meaningless to me. I have traded for such titles as well. Bootlegs should not have to exist at all; it is a factor of the stupidity and greed of the unions and the studios. (Though there is the odd refusenik case of a COMPOSER blocking a release: James Horner prevailing on companies not to issue CDs of BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, Christopher Young begging against CDs of PRANKS or THE POWER, Jerry Goldsmith nixing a CD of THE VANISHING, and so on ... and I've grown quite fond of THE VANISHING, so I can't agree with his opinion there, but then Goldsmith the album producer has ALWAYS been very overly hard on Goldsmith the composer ...)

And I am not terribly principled about CDRs kyped from the larger labels. But then, I don't have many CDRs as it is (if I had my own burner, perhaps I'd be more in-demand as someone to trade with).

all it does it want me to have an original legit pressing, which, like Marian, I buy when I can.

JJH, you mentioned my name, but you must have meant someone else of the above posters. In particular because I DO have quite a lot of CDRs, large parts of my classical collection are copies from my father's CDs. BUT: I spend a lot of money for CDs, I don't think I would spend more if there were no CD burners, so there's no loss for the record companies. And, like Rocco, I would not make copies of CDs by really small lables like FSM.

I frined once lend one to me and my cd player never worked again after a few days listening to that thing.

I'm with Wedge regarding owning the actual releases if they exist. For boots and out-of-print stuff, however, I have no problem with CD-Rs.

The simple fact is that a CD-R that is either traded for or bought for the price of the blank disc itself is legal. It is a private recording for home use and no profit is being made on it.

Regarding boots... well... we've had that discussion from here to eternity. My position is that if it were available already, I'd have bought it. And I will if it becomes available. If it isn't available, and I want to hear it, as a consumer I go to whomever offers it to me.

I bought my first bootleg only three weeks ago (I have long been opposed to them), and it was because I love the music in the film so much (and the film itself) and it means so much to me that I had to have the music... unfortunately, the sound quality left a LOT to be desired, so I won't be doing this often.

Like I said, H'ness has it perfect.

I'll get CDRs of hard to find stuff (Cherry 2000, Farewell To The King) but I wouldn't go for a CDR of an in-print or recently OOP release (Hollow Man, Volcano).
I'll get CDRs of boots, only if I have any original release of the score. I ALWAYS buy the originals first, if there are any, then get CDRs of boots. (I almost NEVER buy original boots because of pricing and quality or lack thereof).

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Originally posted by André Lux:
I don't buy CDRs for just ONE reason:they destroy your cd player.

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That's certainly the first time I've heard about a CDR harming the player. If that's really true, and if the CDR was really the reason for this, it must have been a very strange player.

Your CD player must realize, "Hmm, I see that I have a CD-R in here instead of a pressed CD..." ** SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE INITIATED. **

?? Something like that?

all it takes is to eliminate the 2-second gap, people. you can do it.

A strange thing I recently encountered: After a CDR trade, I put in one of the CDs and it played without problems. After track #3, I stopped it because I had to leave. When I came back, I wanted to play it again, but the player couldn't start it. Same with the other CDR from the same trade that was the same brand. Everything else still played without problems, but I never managed to have my player play these 2 CDs again. I simply copied them onto other CDR brands on my computer, so it wasn't really a problem, but these 2 CDs were the ONLY two my player didn't want. I later gave them to a friend.

My father's player has problems with some CDR types which I can play smoothly, however.