They've cost me some money and saved me a lot more compared to buying CD singles. If I buy CDs they're from USA store and there's some hassle there especially if you go across the border (car gets searched etc). But lots of tracks are still on CDs or vinyl only.

I find the MP3s sound exactly the same as WAV so the MP3 is fine with me. That's what I play out anyway and the WAV (if I have it) is just on a backup CD in a safe place.

Biggest pain is the Territorial Error where we can't buy some stuff while we're in Canada. Tracks on the Ultra label are really bad for this. Whoever has the rights to a track for Canada should smarten up and sell it to us on BeatPort.

And they need additional tracks that are a little more commercial and popular with infrequent clubbers. Like we don't all want to play underground tracks 24/7.

Sometimes they release or re-release over 2,000 tracks a week and most of them you've never heard before and will never want to hear again, tracks that will keep their producers and labels undergound and unknown for a good reason, they're so generic and boring.

Big complaint against BeatPort in the UK is that customers there are forced to pay a lot more than in USA or other parts of Europe.

Gripes aside, BeatPort is a +

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Originally posted by tvmann Biggest pain is the Territorial Error where we can't buy some stuff while we're in Canada. Tracks on the Ultra label are really bad for this. Whoever has the rights to a track for Canada should smarten up and sell it to us on BeatPort.

This is when Mr. Soulseek shows up, and said label loses money because of it.

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I HATE that territorial error.
However I still don't go download it on soulseek - I just move on. One track isn't worth that much effort to go download it elsewhere...

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Originally posted by Jeff Button This is when Mr. Soulseek shows up, and said label loses money because of it.

Exactly. That's the only time I ever use soulseek.

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Originally posted by Skipper One track isn't worth that much effort to go download it elsewhere...

lol

Effort?

1.)open soulseek
2.)type artist/track
3.)double click

Estimated time: (about the same amount of time it took me to make this post)

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I don't have soulseek because I prefer to actually buy my music, and if I can't buy it, I won't download it either. I don't see that territorial error very often to warrant the hassle of installing something I wouldn't use otherwise.

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Originally posted by Skipper I haven't bought the wav's from beatport. I've felt a couple of tracks have been sub-par but not anything I would cry over. Orko, don't you need a credit card to use paypal anyways?

No. I have PP hooked up to my bank account. Any transaction takes two weeks to pay, but I usually just move some money over and leave it there.

I would only buy the WAVs, for sound quality, and just so if i wanted to edit it, i could and not worry about quality loss.

I only purchase WAVs from Beatport... I wouldn't be using the site if it weren't for that option.

Beatport = The only way I can pretend I'm crate digging while at work

<3 Beatport

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I think I spent like 150bucks on beatport last 3 days...
Gah. Why must tunes be so damn good!

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

Has anyone ever been charged twice for the same order?

I was...I kept the invoice, emailed the support email ID, but I'm not sure what to expect.