Regarding my site (the one that advertises on these forums), if you
sign up to my newsletter you can download hundreds of drums and loops for free, all in full quality. Why waste your time trying to sample from my lower quality mp3 demos? BTW many of the product pages on the site also have free full quality examples from the packs.
Serious question Louis, would you say that price is more important over quality? Do you often use reduced quality mp3 in your music? Do you think your music suffers as your source material is from mp3?
Final question, do you have a soundcloud page, would love to hear your work.