Okay, then post the relevent portion of copyright law to back up your claim.
Actually, my original point was it's wrong to take what belongs to someone else, regardless of how outragously they price it.
This side argument is the other posters attempt to hide from the reality that what he is doing is stealing from others. We have copyright laws to protect against this and he even admits this endeavor is, in fact, illegal.
His scenario had us working from a "picture" (his quote)
Music "sharing" OTOH, involves making an exact duplicate of someone elses work in direct violation of the US code.
It's illegal and it's illegal for a reason.
He's not "building" his "own" music with a band in his garage, he's instead ripping off the music someone else "built"
That's crooked and he even admits such.