[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by secret love

Skip, let me tell you just quietly the name of the game on releasing new music is iTunes/digital download. However, I never pay a cent for music I like - if I can't afford a CD single or an album, I ask for a copy from a friend or I access free copies online through file sharing software such as "Lime Wire".

The truth is this illegal because the official line is these actions "support the music piracy industry". The truth is, it is just friends sharing music with each other on a grander scale, online. One person still has to buy the record, upload it to their computer then upload it online to the cloud. Then other Internet users can access it.

The truth is struggling musicians do not earn any money in the process except from the person who bought the original CD. But Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are not struggling musicians and I do not feel sorry for them if their record do not sell or make money. They do not need any more money. They have enough already. I think most people would agree with me on this one, though I don't know.

I still buy music from artists through iTunes, and occasionally Compact Discs, but I am fed up with rich musicians complaining about music sharing and branding it as piracy. If a musician is genuinely struggling to survive financially then this is fine, I will buy their records if they're good. But Fleetwood Mac charge exorbitant ticket prices to their concerts. And to buy Fleetwood Mac's Extended Play cost me $6.96 on iTunes Australia while in USA it cost $3.96. Why do I have to pay more? This was during a time when the US dollar was at parity or thereabouts with the Australian dollar.

I understand what you mean about that.It seem like you guys in the other parts of the world got to pay trough the nose for products then us in the states get it cheaper.