Most Common fans are REAL Common fans, and bought his album. When someone like Mobb Deep gets bootlegged, it's a problem cause they got a lot of half-assed fans (such as myself) who just like their beats.
Here's another problem. i turned a lot of my friends on to Common. And when the new album came out, I'm like 'this is the best album of the year, it's mad dope.. listen to it'. Then their like 'it's tight, burn me a copy'. I'm like: "FUCK NO! Music this dope has to be supported". But then most of these kids don't give a fuck about real music.. even though I convinced them that it is dope, they simply don't care about dopeness. The only things they'd actually buy in a store is something that is wildly popular, and I don't quite know why.