I don't buy things after torrenting because I feel guilty for torrenting. I buy things after torrenting because I like those things. If I dislike those things I delete them and don't buy them.
Additionally I make sure that the money I pay goes as directly as possible to the record label and/or artist.
Usually the music I find worth buying is from smaller labels or independent artists, and I really wonder how any money I could pay to, say, Spotify would hypothetically find its way to them.
And you also just screwed the artists you didn't like out of cash. Note: before you say you wouldn't have bought them anyway...that's how it works. You either listen to it on the radio / youtube etc for free. Then get to own the whole pristine mp3 version of it after you pay for it, not before.
Because you will keep the perfect mp3/flac rip you downloaded and not pay for it. Except you are going to say you are the person who always pays for everything he keeps...everyone always seems to somehow become altruistic when it comes to this point of discussion on chat boards.
Read the post you replied to, where I said I delete stuff I downloaded that I dislike.
I pay for the things I keep. Why would I keep things I don't like? That's just wasted disc space. Why assume I don't pay for things I download? You say they're perfect flacs or mp3s but ripped content is often far from perfect, so buying has the advantage of keeping me legal, giving money to people I like and getting me a better copy of the file.
