[Anonymous]

About a fifth or fourth of my mp3s I'd wager are albums I ripped into my computer because it's where I listen to music. When I get an album, I rip it into mp3s anyway. It's usually just more convenient to download it. However, a lot of happycore shit is hard to get off of kazaa, and it gets harder with more obscure titles. Kazaa lite is helping with that, though :>

I think music is moving on from buying recordings. The RIAA is throwing a fit because they will be rendered useless and die. It's the nature of technology and progress. Some years in the future, no-one will have ever bought music and will be appaled at the idea. I have well over 5,000 mp3s.

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But seriously, acoustic bands make the vast majority of their money by performing live. Electronic groups make a lot of it through royalties. The RIAA was never a large part of an artist's income and it's that very fact that prevents any artist worth mentioning from supporting them. The RIAA are truly the architects of their own destruction.