[hercircus]

As a musician myself I support other artists and buy my music either cds or from itunes, HOWEVER, as a musician I could care fucking less if someone was stealing my music, in fact I would just be happy that people wanted to hear my music. Musicians are really greedy and already make way too much money, and that was never supposed to be the purpose of being a musician. Musicians are "artists" and artists do what they do because they love it, not for the money, unless they are sell outs. Not to say that anyone's complaining about making millions to do something they love to do, but then really it just becomes a matter of greed. These days because artists aren't making as much money off of album sales, they make up for it with concert prices and merchandise sales. Concert tickets these days, depending on the band, are going anywhere from $30-$800 a pop and merchandise is always overly expensive. It is outrageous and far more than you would ever spend on a cd right? so I wouldn't worry about the bands financial situations, they have far more money than any of us do so really what do they have to complain about?

HOWEVER, from a listeners standpoint I understand that it isn't fair that some of us do pay for music while others get it for free because they're stealing it, and I think that is the biggest point about pirating anything and as to why I do pay for my music. In conclusion I believe it's more unfair to the others who are buying their music as opposed to being unfair to the musicians themselves.