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Poll: how do you get your music?

Are you a fan of the LP, a CD ripper or just prefer to get your music for "free"? Let us know how you like to get your music in our new poll!

Ty Pendlebury Editor
Ty Pendlebury is a journalism graduate of RMIT Melbourne, and has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about streaming and home audio.
Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has been writing about home entertainment since 2004. He majored in Cinema Studies when studying at RMIT. He is an avid record collector and streaming music enthusiast. Credentials
  • Ty was nominated for Best New Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism awards, but he has only ever won one thing. As a youth, he was awarded a free session for the photography studio at a local supermarket.
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Jon Bon Jovi likes jackets. He really, really likes jackets.

I like jackets
(Credit: Zodi's Blog )

Baby boomer Jon also loves albums. He likes looking at the "jackets" of an old vinyl record and imagining what the music sounds like. He accuses Steve Jobs of destroying music by not distributing music with jackets.

Whether "Mr Shiny Trousers" wants it or not, the music industry is changing. No matter what he says, downloading music will only increase.

While jackets are admittedly nice, they form only one small part of the experience. Surely the music itself is the most important element?

But what we want to know is: how do you get your music? While we prefer having physical discs ourselves (which means we can re-rip it if something goes wrong with the copy), the closing of music stores means that not everyone prefers this method. Whether you like iTunes, LPs, CDs or BitTorrent, let us know in our poll!