Definitely. Ever since I got a PayPal account and therefore became capable of purchasing things online without needing someone else to do it for me, I've bought individual songs whenever I actually can buy the songs individually and without having to get an entire mostly-unfamiliar physical album shipped to me. (If I actually do want the whole album, I'd still rather buy a digital copy than pay almost as much for shipping -- if not more -- as for the music, but if the official store only offers physical copies that's when I give up.)
And then there's movies and TV; I have access to Netflix through my parents' subscription, but it's Canadian Netflix, so they generally only have what I want to watch if it's particularly popular or produced for Netflix, and the popular stuff is often only within a certain time range (a few months ago they had Captain America: Winter Soldier but not the first Captain America movie, for instance). But I do prefer to watch shows legally via Netflix when they make that possible, instead of pirating them. I actually tried a VPN service to get to the American version of Netflix once, but it didn't work.
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Date: 2017-02-07 11:22 pm (UTC)And then there's movies and TV; I have access to Netflix through my parents' subscription, but it's Canadian Netflix, so they generally only have what I want to watch if it's particularly popular or produced for Netflix, and the popular stuff is often only within a certain time range (a few months ago they had Captain America: Winter Soldier but not the first Captain America movie, for instance). But I do prefer to watch shows legally via Netflix when they make that possible, instead of pirating them. I actually tried a VPN service to get to the American version of Netflix once, but it didn't work.