[Not Insane]

__ If the national music industry falls apart then people will be exposed to less music, which will inspire fewer people to make music.__

I have no problem with that. My wife and I went on an extended road trip in our two year old highway cruiser last month. The stereo broke just before the trip and I was very disapointed - I like to put together compilation discs for each trip.

Well guess what? We had the best road trip ever. We talked, pointed out landmarks and had a great time.

Most people today use music as a "mind filler" way too much. Construction workers have the paint covered gheto blaster pumping out zz top. Bus riders have headphones. People clean the kitchen to whitney houston.

Quiet can be good. Music is really not all that important.

NO MUSIC is a bad thing. Less music can be a good thing...

[discostu]

There's a major difference between one road trip without music and an entire culture without music.

[MacDorcha]

"Quiet can be good. Music is really not all that important"

then why defend the stand point of dowloading all the music you can for free? if you truly found this out, and it really changes you to think so, why would you let people overload their brains with music all the time? and it will increase before it dies, and it will take a while for the decrease to show. people will listen to music nonstop if they all thought that dowloading whatever you want is alright.