napster was a promotional service

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>One interesting thing I've noticed in my own buying habits in the post-Napster
>era: not only am I buying more CDs overall than before, but also I am only
>buying CDs that I could never have possibly heard of before, sampling MP3s on
>the Net and ordering online from tiny independent labels in Germany for
>example...

exactly! I thought I was the only one who used to do this...I would check
out all sorts of obscure music via napster and then buy it if I really
wanted it on CD...I used Napster a lot for research and for determining
what CD I ought to spend my money on...I bought more CD's when I used
napster than I do now...