>It's with the fact that those consumers believe free music is
>their RIGHT and the artist is a villain for even harboring the
>DESIRE to get paid.

no you are ASSUMING that people think free music is their right and that they are mad at artists for wanting them to pay for the music

essentially, you're making a bunch of blanket judgments about "modern music fans" because it ticks you off that a bunch of ingrates don't compensate the artists they listen to

your issue IS at least partially w/ the technology as, absent the technology, you'd be directing your vitriol towards hard core tape-dubbers and cd-burners instead of illegal-downloaders, and it's the technology and how it makes it so "easy" that creates these supposed legions of sociopathic fans who suck the blood of the poor struggling artists

i don't know how many more ways i can say this ;-)