I am not advocating the theft of music at all...although I do have quite a few MP3s on my list.

What is happening is people are tired of getting ripped off by the industry.

Example:
I hear a song on the radio and go out to the store and shell out $20 - 25 an album, I get it to my car rip open the packaging then listen to it. Suddenly I relize that the album I just bought only has maybe 3 songs on it that are worth paying for....so the average album being 17 songs anymore I just paid $6.50 per song and I feel ripped off (based on a $20 album) now if I had been able to listen first to the whole album I may not have bought it.

I am not saying the RIAA is responsible for poor music talent at all but the pricing of albums is an issue they can and need to adress.

Music sales are down but I believe only a small portion of the drop can be attributed to MP3 file sharing as opposed to people just being fed up with being gouged an overinflated price when maybe .10 of each albums sale actually makes it to the artist...and thats a generous number I state.