I would bet you can copy all the music you want from the radio. Try editing out all the back ground and over lapping. It is not the same music!
There is many a low-commercial FM station playing modern numbers that does not do babble overs and fade ins/outs. If you put a recording mike in front of a consumer grade radio the results are not going to be good, but with proper tuner and equalization and a direct feed, the amount of distortion introduced is well below what is introduced by loudspeakers. Back in “the day,” American manufacturers put out console AM radios that sounded as good as today’s Chinese made FM radios.
BTW, there is an express legal loophole for home radio recording, just to increase your indignancy.
Actually, you can go straight from radio to your computer with the proper hookup. Probably easier if you have digital radio. I have gotten a USB turntable, and can put my LP’s on computer. Plus, the software has editing function to remove hiss. I have some LPs almost 50 years old which can be edited to sound almost new.
Is it right? Was it right to tell us CDs would last forever and then after we buy a gazillion, they start getting winky in a few years?
Probably not, but it ain’t going to stop. I figure that is why they push “net books”. Yeah they would like nothing better than to have all our content on line.
parsy, who thinks music companies need to get used to it.