Music artists make most of their revenue from touring. They typically make little to nothing from album sales anyway. The labels make the vast majority of the money from the albums sales.
I feel absolutely no guilt over downloading a mediocre studio album for free when a)the money from album sales is going to executives who had little to nothing to do with creating the music and b)I’m going to shell out about $100 dollars to see the band on tour anyway.
It’s interesting that when bankers manipulate the stock market to bilk working families out of their savings, that’s just a consequence of the free market.
But when “the Obama generation” manipulates technology in a way that results in rich executives at Sony Music losing money on music that they didn’t even create, suddenly its a crime.
Sounds like right-wing hypocrisy to me.
