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It's actually only $140 at Amazon. I haven't bought one yet, but I've had my eye on it for awhile.

I have to point out that ripping discs and dispensing with them (e.g. throwing them away) is one thing (pretty wasteful, actually) but ripping them and selling them is illegal.

As an artist, I find the vague suggestion above and elsewhere offensive.

*falls off soap box*

Kevin - I don't think what they're suggesting is ripping them and then discarding the original - they're just trying to find a way to have easy access to their music. In this day an age with the ipod and mp3's, everyone wants their music to be portable, and a turntable ISN'T. So this is just a good way to make "easy access" of your vinyl collect without having to lug around a turntable. :P

P.S. And where is the mention of ripping an selling? I think the interest in this would be for PERSONAL use. Yes, there are going to be people who may sell, but where was this mentioned?

Sure, ripping a cd and selling it is "illegal". Because the record company/artist gets no profit When you sell the cd, right? But didn't they already get their share when you bought it in the first place? It's not like you just downloaded the music. What about buying used cds? Record companies/artists get no cut from used cd/record shops. So how is that any more legal?

Susan, you're right in that I jumped ahead a bit. I guess it's been a sort of sensitive subject lately.

DaveD, what do you do for a living? Imagine that whatever you produce could be copied exactly and then those copies could be given or sold to another, without you gaining anything from the exchange.

For instance, I'm a writer. If someone buys one of my stories, reads it and gives it to a friend - or sells it to a stranger - that's fine. Reader #1 has (I hope) gained something and then given it away to Reader #2. But if Reader #1 photocopies my story and gives or sells the copy to Reader #2 (or keeps the copy for himself and transfers to original to Reader #2) then both readers have my work while only one had to pay for it.

I don't think that's fair.

On the other hand, some artists don't care, and that's their perogative. Elvis Costello comes to mind. Underneath the FBI Anti-Piracy warning on the back of his CDS he writes something to the effect of his not endorsing the warning and adds "The FBI doesn't have his home phone number and he hopes they don't have yours."

Elvis Costello is successful. He has enough money to do what he wants. I make barely enough to scrape by. I can't afford to have my stories copied and given away or sold.

And even if I could, I don't know that it would be fair for others to do it. But hey, that's just me.

And for the record (har-har), I really like the idea of transferring my LPs to MP3... while keeping the originals, of course.

I don't think this is posted so you can squabble about your talent being robbed from you.

I love the turntable
there's one at fredflare.com for $200 and there's also one at urbanoutfitters.com for $150

This is ideal. Before you had to set your turntable up to an amp and then get a converter into your computer and either buy software or use Microsoft Movie Maker to do it. I never got around to doing it the "free" way (Movie Maker comes with NT).

I've still got about 300 records, not to mention all the 7" punk rock records I can't get on CD, so this might be the way to go.

Who's squabbling, Kaya D.?

And I said nothing about talent. I was talking about words on the page. Talent? That's up for you to decide.

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