Very nice article, thanks for sharing! It's a shame most of the responses for this article are basically "GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS", in that it's older people berating younger people for, essentially, doing what they've been taught to be acceptable. There needs to be some sort of compromise... What that is, I have no idea, but you can't just expect people to think about it and say "Oh boy, it is wrong, isn't it?". In a perfect world, maybe, but that's unrealistic. Calling some one "lazy", "part of the gimmie generation", or anything like that won't change a single thing.

I try to buy albums, but I literally spend all of my spending money on concert tickets (and transportation to and from concerts). I do what I can and the fact is, without illegally downloading, I wouldn't listen to the majority of the acts I listen to which means I wouldn't be spending my money on tickets to their concerts or the shirts and CDs they sell at those concerts. It is, however, an especially sad thought that most children of the next generation won't have any record collection passed down. I'd imagine giving your child a harddrive doesn't have the same magic as passing down a well worn copy of Raw Power or Definitely Maybe (But I'm sure some of those commenters would argue for this damn kids to buy it themselves).