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I am not going to pay 50 bucks for a program that is worth more like 10 when I can get it for free. If there is a CD that has a song I like, but there is only one song on it I like, I won't pay 13 bucks for an entire CD. It has never come to that, but I would go download an mp3 in the future if it does.

But you can't hop behind the counter at Mc. Donald's and grab a fry because you don't think you should have to buy a whole box when you just want one fry.

Well true, but in that situation the food comes as a package logically. Also, you actually want all the fries eventually when you are hungry.

I don't want to listen to every song on a dang CD sometimes. Even after listening a couple times (checking out the beginning of the songs I didn't buy the CD for), I still don't have an interest in half the CD. I am wasting half of my purchase and since I am rather thrifty, I don't like the idea of wasting half of my money. Instead of paying 13 bucks for 12 songs, I was paying 13 bucks for 4 songs I really wanted. That is not right. Dividing it up by song, the amount of money that I actually spent that was worth it was $4.32. That means $8.68 is wasted cash I could have spent getting two meals somewhere. Furthermore, it is not logical to package songs together like it is with food. When you buy french fries, you are buying the same product. When you purchase a CD, you are buying a bunch of different little products, sometimes only a couple of which you actually want. You are being forced to buy extra. This does not show good character of the record companies...shoving crap we don't want down our throats.

The only fair solution to keep people from resorting to file swapping???: get to buy only the songs you want.

As for warez, I don't really have any moral justification for that except software is horrendously expensive sometimes and well, I don't want to pay the high price. I don't have any other reasons.