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I have a husband, a daughter, a mortgage and no job, but I have never downloaded from the net.
If I like an artist's prior work, I'll take a chance and buy the newest CD. It's what I've always done, since I was 12 years old, and spending my birthday money on New Edition cassettes. I find it easy to rationalize that if a CD has 10 songs, at least 3 of them should be good. If it has 12 songs, four to five of them should be good.
I can't think of one artist off the top of my head who has a CD where every single song is good...including Jill Scott (What in the world was she talking about on Honey Molasses), and even my future husband, Nas. It will never be MY reality to like every song on a CD. My tastes run the gamut a little too much.
Besides, I kinda feel like it's a "trip" to rationalize theft. Call downloading what you want to call it, but it's theft. People are "taking" what they are supposed to be "paying" for... theft.
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