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I listen to WNYC-FM most of the day, and the rest of the day I listen to WFUV. We're very lucky that WNYC continues to be one of the last (and best) bastions of very high quality new classical and modern music on the radio dial. WFUV is it's companion in the folk/rock/pop world.

A combination of the choices listed above...Music videos make up the large part of what's hot. Sometimes downloading a song from a favorite artists web site or record labels web site makes me decide on buying the artist CD. Hearing some of the new music on the local FM radio stations make up another large part, thru repeated listening to the artists songs on the morning drive often makes me want to check out the whole CD too. Live performances at summer music festivals make up another part. I go to the festival to see a favorite artist or two and end up discovering another favorite. Seeing other people's opinions in music magazines help sometimes but often they are biased in one way or another so I don't put much into what I read from the music reviewers. Some music stores let you listen to the CD's before you buy and that helps as well with CD's that are not in the mainstream. As far as friends, I'm the music guru so I'm the one who often shares with others what I find that's good. More often than not, my friends do not share with me and that kinda makes me disapointed with relying on others for music recommendations.

Friends reccomending music is a major part of how i find new music. But i have also found alot of new music through the internet. Lately though, with cd prices reaching nearly 20 dollars each even for stuff released years ago i find myself walking out of the store in disgust.

There's still too much good music on the radio for my budjet, which is nice.

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I'm a fan of certain labels and often purchase their offerings. In the mix are other items which I either read in a review or simply catch my eye on its own merits.

I especially listen to the reviewers in magazines such as Stereophile and The Abso!ute Sound. I would love to see more classical reviews. The length of the review is not as important as the quality of its consequences.

The public library system has procured most of my requests over the last 20 years. Why download?

Radio as a source for new music? Are you kidding? I guess the key words there were "used to be". My main source is magazine reviews. Once in awhile I will hear something on DirecTV's music channels that will pique my interest, though.

I don't just have one "source". So, therefore also, radio, internet, friends, in the store and live performances. Restricting my choice to one is incomplete

Go Radio!!!

In the '70's, progressive rock fans filled arenas to hear Pink Floyd and Yes. In the '00's, we converge at places like the North East Art Rock Festival (NEARFest), held last weekend in an elegant 1800 seat theater in Trenton, NJ. Between performances by legends like Magma and Camel and newer bands like the Flower Kings and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, the proggers flood the sales rooms to buy indie label CDs by the thousands, with nary a "Big Five" label CD in sight.

In Alberta, Canada, we have a superb radio station that is available thtoughout the province on AM, FM, and on the 'Net. It is called CKUA and it features all forms of music. Try it, you will like it.

I LISTEN TO TWO COLLEGE STATIONS IN MY AREA. COMMERCIAL RADIO IS DREADFUL.

It's most of the above. I attend a lot of live concerts, so if I hear something new, I'll start looking in The Penguin Guide. Friends or a review in Stereophile (or one of the other magazines) might get me interested in something I've never heard. Planet Music in Virginia Beach has a membership plan which allows you to audition recordings, which makes it easier to buy.

Other than the odd public radio station, of which there just aren't that many in any one listening area, what else is there but the Internet? It offers what used to be available via radio. The all important choice.

By far, radio was—and still is, despite all—my number one means of finding great music. Unfortunately, like what most of the major publishing companies have done, most radio stations have repositioned themselves. They now seem to have the same type of target audience: teenagers, basically, and the same type of content, contemporary low-grade pop/rock music. These radio stations are therefore alienating us older listeners (I

I used to find it from friends, but I listen to mostly jazz, and therefore cannot hear it anywhere in the mass media. It's really disheartening because there's a lot of great music. I'm only 20, so most of my peers don't share my passion for music or high end (not high price) audio. It stems from being a musician. Oh yea, internet, it's great. There are reviews for everything pop (no classical) and I can find oop stuff or limited stuff.

For me, hearing a tune on the radio may lead to buying the CD it's on. Particularly if it's an artist I'm familiar with. Besides, local radio (if you live in a metro area where there is wide choice of formats) helps fuel the local economy.

Mostly through radio, some from magazine reviews and live performances. I'm going through a serious living-composer phase and am alway interested in "new."

I refuse to listen to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat rererererererererepeat rararararararararadio!!!

I always go to a small record store where you get real customer service and very knowledgeable staff, and, frequently, very good hints for music I would otherwise never have discovered, not even through the Internet. It's worth paying for a little extra, rather than order something on the 'Net from an anonymous person/company.

What new music there is coming out from the now "pop country" is so short on talent, I have only purchased two discs in the last three years. Back in the late '80's to mid '90s, I was buying four or five discs a month. They can keep today's so-called country music.

Since I left school, my exposure to new music dropped dramatically. Radio is an option, but there are so many commercials I end up tuned into NPR almost all the time. These days I find myself buying far more CDs without having heard a single track beforehand.

I primarily search through audiophile recording catalogs, such as Acoustic Sounds, in search of good recordings that match musical genres that I enjoy.

There is almost nothing new worth buying. I can't think of the last "new" record that I have bought!

How do I find new music I want to buy? With great difficulty. When I was a young guy, all I had to do was to turn on the radio. Back then, the radio stations played lots of music I wanted to buy, and they even made it easy for me to do just that. They announcers always told the listener the name of each song played along with the performing artist. It was a snap. Made sense too, thats how records get sold, it's called promotion. Now that I'm a boomer, I find that music radio is geared for the pre-teen set. And since much of the pre-teen set does not have a lot of disposable income, I suspect that they don't buy much music. So I guess it makes sense that today's music radio does not announcethe name of each song played or the name of the performing artist. Now if some enterprising station in town (metro Buffalo NY) played new music for boomers, announced the name of each song played and the performing artist, I could have answered the question like this: "Why, from the music I hear on the radio."

DirecTV, with all their audio channels rocks. I can hear songs that are not part of the booring radio playlist! The stations in the Memphis, TN area have been recycling the same songs for 30 years.

Right now the internet seems to be the fastest way to find the music I want to buy. I just hope this medium does not become the only way to buy music. I'm not quite ready for compressed music files for $1 a shot. I've already spent many decades training my ears to enjoy good sound. At this point in life I would still like to see as much improvement in sound reproduction at home as I've experienced since I became a audiophile in the 1960's. Thanks for the wonderful reading in your excellent magazine. Reynaldo Mendez Caracas, Venezuela

Have to say the Iinternet. Partially from recommendations posted on various audio message forums and partly from downloading music from the news groups. I know it pisses the RIAA off, but in my case if I like something I downloaded, I don't hesitate to purchase it. Music I don't like is deleted, everybody wins. Of course not everyone plays that way. I have serious problems with shelling out $17+ for something I haven't heard before. My other source for new music is our local, public radio, jazz station. They play a great variety and I have made quite a few purchases based on my exposure to music on their station.