Here's my typical music habit:
Hear the name of a song from a friend,
search for it, and download some similar songs (in the case of napster..) - I generally download random songs from people's collections, songs I've never heard of from groups I've never heard of...
Like a song? go out and buy the album..
I probably did most of my cd purchasing in my high-school days - I used to buy 2-3 cd's a week; but I've probably purchased the most legitimate cd's since I've gotten the empeg and had the incentive to download mp3's...
-mark
...proud to have one of the first Mark I units