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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
I know that it's difficult to quantify however the fact is that prior to filesharing the only way to access a true copy of any quality was to buy the product.
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Perhaps not in the UK, but in many other countries you could listen to an LP/CD before you bought it. In Holland for instance, record shops would have a number of record players/cd players and headsets. When CD players came in they gave the customer his own controls so you could skip, fast forward etc. I've gone up to the counter with 4 or 5 CDs listened to them all, and ended up buying only one many times. It's considered normal practice.
Try before you buy in the music industry has been well established for a long time in some countries.