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I just don't feel one bit bad about downloading music off torrents and whatnot at all.
If you want to support the artist, watch their ad enabled videos, buy band merchandise and go see their shows.
Nobody's making any noticeable money except the middle men with the physical CD (which happens to wear out, scratch and become USELESS way too easily.
You do not have any ownership of anything that the CD plays for you once you buy it anyways. You only have ownership of the physical disk itself. You are allowed to make one backup copy unless there's copy protection which crashes a Mac on load and installs a rootkit on your HDD, circumvent that and you are guilty of a federal offense but even-so once your original disk becomes unplayable from damage you no longer have rights to play the music you supposedly "paid" for.
Also, because of the distributor's and label's greed over this $0.03 plastic and/or corn based polymer disc you are also paying levies on hard drives, media cards, thumb drives, mp3 players and any blank cd/dvds/cassettes to recoup the "loss of profits" in the music industry. They just don't tell you that the real loses are just in the manufacturing, physical distribution and retail sectors... which is not owned or operated by any such label(s). The only exception is Sony/BMG. They own the container ship the little plastic disks are shipped overseas on.
Think about that for a few seconds...
Fuck 'em!
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