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Originally Posted by ExistentialDisorder
When you download an illegal copy of that obscure limited edition release from your favorite band, from 15 years ago, you're still disrespecting that band, even if it is just a few cents. They had their own reasons for making it a limited edition.
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Yeah, their reasons being that their record label, or the band themselves, couldn't afford to press more than 3 - 5000 copies.
And see, I don't have one
favorite band, I have more like 600. So it gets a little hard narrowing it down. If the predatory nerd in me wants a record I can't physically get at that particular time, damn right I'll help myself. Once again you completely ignore the human aspect of the equation, i.e. my dependency on interesting music, and my being a poor p.t. working student, not having the money or physical channels (stores) to secure a steady supply of it. Instead you're hiding behind some amoral law-riding bullshit to prove something, I don't know what. I've spent more time in record stores than you have getting irate over petty concerns (ok, maybe not more than three years combined), so don't try to tell me I don't support the bands I love.
What is it with your hard-on for the law anyway? Wasn't there once a band who made a song called "Breaking the Law", which was actually considered a
cool song?! Since when did that change? Is Huey Lewis and the News suddenly back in style now?
Maybe I'm just a
freedom-lover, 'cause I don't get it.