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OK answer me this. The record companies and artist lobbied our Congress to allow them (collectivly) to charge all people who purchase CD's the cost of the copy they were immediatly going to create on cassette. So every CD you have purchased so far has already included the cost of another if you copied it or not. If you are old enough to remember LP's they were about $7 a copy at the begginning of the CD changover. Why did a CD which cost as much or less to produce suddenly cost $15. I remember listening to Frank Zappa, Barf Brooks, and a host of other talk about it on CSPAN. Right then I knew that the game was rigged and they were STEALING money from everyone who purchased a CD. So with the congress aiding and abbetting the recording industry they have stolen much more from us then we are stealing from them. Doesn't make it right, but is justice if you believe that "whats fair is fair."

I knew that the game was rigged and [record companies and artists] were STEALING money from everyone who purchased a CD.

How can you steal from someone who makes a willing purchase? If you feel like the price is a ripoff, then don't buy a CD, but don't justify stealing the music and say it's OK because the price of a CD has risen more than you like.

Those awful right wing Puritans of the American colonial days had a hatred for overpricing. I remember that one of the first people to get put in the stocks was the maker of the machines because he charged what was too much in the eyes of the colony.

Instead of encouraging lower prices, the govt. today is encouraging the prices to go even higher on things.