The RIAA keeps yelling and ranting about how their sales are in the dumps, and it’s all fault of music pirates. “We’d be fixing prices and raking in the dough, if it weren’t for you darned kids!”
The problem is, the numbers from the RIAA itself don’t add up. Or, rather, they add up funny — because one reason why overall sales are down is because the music companies are publishing less product — but they’re making more per unit than ever before.
Feh.
I buy about 4 CDs a year. Why support them (evil recording industry that wants to strip away my privacy)? And no – I don’t actively rip off or download, either. I do without.
Pop culture is hugely overrated.