>lol right but artists can get away with "it costs money to
>make this shit, u gotta pay me for it no matter what cos
>that's how things work"? you come on, sir.

NOBODY is holding a gun to your head forcing you to pay for, or even to listen to, the music.

If you don't want to pay? Fine... Just don't listen to the music and you owe nobody anything.

I used the example above about how I've not been able to afford a lot of new records lately... My solution is that I don't listen to a lot of new music. I have thousands of records already, a good deal of them that I have listened to very little, if at all. Enough to last me years, if necessary.

Does it suck that I am not up on new music like I used to be? Yeah... kinda. But then, it is not my RIGHT to have every new record if I cannot afford it.