or they are actually buying the CD and ripping it themselves...
I have actually found that I have been doing that more & more lately.
I do buy a lot off of iTunes though, especially books. I get so mad, however, when I want to get one song, and it is the ONE song that you have to buy the whole CD for. I have been trying to get Vindicated by Dashboard Confessionals forever, but they want me to buy the whole freakin' Spiderman sountrack for it, and I'm not doing that. Can anyone explain to me why they do that? Dashboard has plenty of other songs available through iTunes, and most of the rest of the songs on the CD is avaiable for purchase singly. Very annoying.