MP3 Download Codes are a Good Idea

As someone who works in an office for eight hours a day, five days a week behind a desk and a computer, i have a lot of time to listen to music. Due to the nature of my work (data entry/analysis), i spend a lot of time alone and need to focus intently, and i find that music helps me to do so. Now, even though i have a large collection of CDs (113 at last count), i still would like to listen to the nearly 200+ vinyl albums at work. Now, as a pseudo-neo-Luddite (?), i would be fine dragging in a turntable and slamming that onto my desk to enjoy a record or two at work, but i feel as though this move would not go over well. Thus, i am left to enjoy my records as mp3s played in Windows Media Player at work. Although i love the sound quality of vinyl and generally avoid mp3s as a general rule, i do enjoy being able to hear the records i paid $20 or more for outside the comfort of my cozy living room and its turntable, albeit in an inherently inferior form. i am of the opinion that muffled, scratchy, poor-quality music is still better than silence.

This being said, i quite enjoy it when a record company understands this and includes a coupon for a free download of the vinyl record you purchase. Deathwish and Saddle Creek are two labels that seem to include these coupons with all of their releases, wish is very, very awesome. The best download offer came with my copy of Minus the Bear's "They Make Beer Commercials Like This," which included 3 free downloads!
Unfortunately, the majority of the releases i purchase are either too old to even have seen the arrival of mp3s, leaving me to go without while on the job or to seek out an illegal mp3 copy of the album through the powers of the internet. i have mixed feelings about this manner, as it is still illegal, but i did purchase the album, so i feel as though i should have the right to hear it whenever i want to, but that is probably just my materialistic sense of entitlement as a result of living in America all of my life rearing its head. i don't know. i could also purchase a USB turntable, but i am opposed to doing so, mostly because i am cheap and like to use my dad's 30 year-old Technics table. Perhaps one day. For now, hand over the oil-burning lantern and the hand-pushed plow and get out the vinyl, baby.