This article is an interesting perspective on the state of our music industry today. I have always thought that downloading a song that you have not properly paid the artist for the right to have is theft, pure and simple. I have no problem buying music, I am not a rich man, but the singers and songwriters deserve to be paid, after all it is their profession.
by Grayson Currin
If, in the midst of this recession, you find yourself unemployed, broke and longing to hear Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, the eighth studio album from Dave Matthews Band, your most cost-efficient option is, well, to steal it. Search on Google. Download the torrent. Burn it from a more financially solvent friend.
Let's say you've got a few dollars, though, and you're not averse to the archaic notion of paying for music. Your cheapest options would be the biggest vendors: Digital files of the album are available for $9.99 via iTunes and Amazon, while the compact disc itself— tucked away in a generously decorated, recycled cardboard package—can be purchased at Best Buy for the same price.
Spend nothing or spend $10: Either way, it's far less than the $16.99 sticker price that many of the 900 or so remaining independent record stores in America—Schoolkids on Hillsborough Street, for instance—offers. But Ric Culross, a Schoolkids manager for nearly two decades, sounds satisfied with his store's sales of Big Whiskey in its first week. They've sold 28 copies, he says, and on Tuesday the phone was ringing constantly with people ensuring that both the album and a seven-inch record sporting its first single, "Funny the Way It Is," were in stock.
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