[Morose Musician]

Thanks for posting it. It is an interesting article. Tom Petty addresses so many issues that it's hard to respond to just one.

CD prices are indeed too high for a lot of teenaged kids' budgets.

Despite my efforts to educate my middle school students about copyright laws, virtually all of my kids regularly download song files from the internet and burn the digital recordings onto CDs.

When they have a choice between spending seventeen dollars or virtually nothing for the music they want, they do what makes sense to them.

They do not yet have the foresight to figure out the eventual consequences of the wholesale disregard for intellectual property rights.

I hope the recording industry, as Tom suggested, will try pricing albums more reasonably so the temptation to download and burn will be less enticing.

[FITZ]

I hope the recording industry, as Tom suggested, will try pricing albums more reasonably so the temptation to download and burn will be less enticing.

It's not like people weren't copying 8-tracks and cassette tapes, I don't really see the big issue in burning a CD.