I like cutting breaks myself most of the time. I used to dig alot from vinyl cassetes, and cd's.
I've found a healthy dose of breaks online too that are good quality.
Someone upped a dumptruck load on another forum, and I scooped them up.
Then I found out those breaks were being sold for $100 by someone lol.
Well they deserve to have thier breaks jacked IMO. No one should be selling breaks from old vinyl online.
I don't care how hard they worked to souce all of it either.
They could'nt have possibly cleared all of those breaks, so how can they sell them, and not expect to get jacked lol.
All breaks are excerpts from recordings. It's not like the original artist is getting paid off some kid sourcing a bunch of breaks, and trying make cash from it.
So dive in, and grab all the good vinyl breaks you can, and chop'em up.
But I would'nt pay for'em unless thier on vinyl.
Now I'm not advocating stealing sampling cd's offline, but if all that's on there is old breaks it's not thier material to sell anyway.
Now if someone is going to take the time to actually clear hundreds of breaks, that's differant, but c'mon some of these small outfits arent clearing nothing.