Okay, how can I put this...
I got into psytrance about a year ago starting with Infected Mushroom, but now I'm listening to everything, Full-On party tunes, Old-school goa, ambient, and ive also got into mixing aswell, mainly mixing psy and old-school goa.
One problem I'm having though is the old classics. I'm talking about stuff like We Created Our Own Happiness, IFO, Juggeling Alchemist. I haven't been able to listen to these albums let alone own them due to their rarity.
Now don't get me wrong, this isn't a complaint as I do understand the concept of collectors items, but when I'm wanting to listen to some of these old classics I'm not wanting to shell out £230 for one cd (in the case of Solar Quest's Orgship as I saw online today). I'm commited, of course, but not that commited.
I own several albums. Most albums availible today are in my collection such as Astral Files, Lone Deranger, Transdimensional, and I managed to get copies of Alien Protien and Trust in Trance 3 on eBay for a reasonable price, but thats about as far as I could go...
So I turn to illegal downloading, but I still can't get hold of some of these albums, even indivisual tracks. I managed to download 15% of Chi-A.D's Virtual Spirit album, and from the 15% I can hear it is possibly the most psychedelic example of Goa that I have heard.
So what I ask is, how do you guys get your fix of these rare albums? Do you shell out the cash for collectors items? Have you owned the CDs since their heyday? Someone advise me because most of this music I'm not even able to listen to, let alone use in mixes, ect.