I finally figured out what MP3s are good for...

[Stone]

I'm still not a hiuge fan for listening at home. Even stuff I can download for free gets purchased if I like it and expect to listen to it regularly. But, for portability in a place where the sound's always crap already, they're perfect.

Agreed. That's why I lisen to MP3s (via iPod) at the gym and on airplanes. And last night, on our bus trip back from a firm seminar, I listened to the iPod. It's great for those kind of situations.

Anybody else do anything like this?

Not for the car (especially since I don't think my car stereo plays MP3s), but when I was on the road for weeks on end last year, I burned a CD with numerous albums worth of MP3s so I could listen in the mornings or in the evenings on my computer in the hotel room.

[Jim Clark]

I really like to listen before I buy, MP3's are great for that. The Obner geniuses have set up a private network that is awfully cool, but there isn't much I want to d/l off of it. What I've been doing is downloading some bootleg shows from Easytree.org and a couple of other places. Just got this 2 disc soundboard bootleg from the B-52-s and it's incredible. The lossless format is just the ticket and I'm a true believer in these SBD recordings. Amazing. My tuesday spiel will be pretty cool for a change.

jc