Would an Audiofile really download music?

Not all music (live) is available in commercially sold formats. How else would you get the music except for downloading?

I would rather do without.

If you prefer live concerts where the performers aren't under the constraints of record companies and your cd's are not filled with a bunch of lousy songs then you might prefer to download legal concerts recorded in uncompressed flac format from a legal download p2p site. Just my opinion..

Sure. There's a lot of music that is only available as downloads from the internet. For example, the best song I've heard in the last couple of years, the anthemic "This Is Destiny Calling" by the UK punk band Johnny Panic, can only be had as an MP3 (from Marshall guitar amps' website, no less). Yeah it's not a high fidelity recording but my life would be a little bit diminished if I had never heard the song. Great music with bad sound beats great sounding bad music any day.