i started downloading music 10 years back when napster was free to use i carried on downloading for for free on different p2p's then i moved onto torrents. i have now approximatly 1.5TB of muisc in mp3 and flac
i started downloading because i like psytrance which was very hard to find im my country i have gone on to buy some cd's that i really like and i also have an incredably large amount of shit music on my hard drives that i would have had to have bought to have found the good stuff
i've also introduced freinds to artists that they would never had heard and they have gone on to buy their albums/ goto their concerts
yeah i have got a fair few good albums that i havent paid towards but money has been spent on artists from other countries that would never have had me as an audience if it wasnt for downloading so i dont feel any guilt
http://rutracker.org/forum/index.php < very good site for electronic music from over the world