[Ouderkirk]

I am of the opinion that if their stuff is good enough to buy, then they don’t have a problem.

The problem is when it’s not. How many of you have bought an LP of some band that you like, and had maybe 1 or 2 tunes that you actually liked on that record with the other 10 or 11 tracks being garbage? I have hundreds of these records and I view file sharing as a sort of restitution for all of the crap that they have sold over the years.

File sharing/pirating is for the most part, stuff that the down-loader wouldn’t have bought anyway, so they re not out anything.

[cva66snipe]

That's one thing I like about burning my own CD's. I can take the songs off of CD's I bought I like and have the music I want to hear. The alternative is a Classic Rock station than plays about 50 songs over and over and cuts them off at the end or talks over it. Paying for a CD, album etc for about two or three songs hasn't really bothered me that much. No one can turn out hit after hit and on some albums I've found B-side material I liked better than the A-side.

I remember when I bought Herman's Hermits as a kid and Henry The Eighth was A side and End of the world was B side. I liked both. The most Different B-side recording made? The original flip side of "They're coming to take me away". They didn't have any material to record so it was simply recorded backwards.