I'm with you Stefan... it certainly is a moral grey area, to download songs at all.... but I definitely feel it's completely wrong to make money off of unreleased material.
It's one thing to share the music with others, but to make a profit off of it, at the expense of the artist, is pretty heinous.
I also feel it's wrong of a "fan" to bipass buying a greatest hits collection, by downloading any new or rare tracks.
If you want them that bad, then buy the official release.
If you care at all about an artist's music, then one would assume that you'd not want to take money out of their pocket (how ever rich they might seem from your standpoint, this IS the person's livelyhood).
I definitely hope that anyone who downloads "Thrown Down," or any other tracks that might potentially leak from the new album, will also buy the official release when it's available.
To me, it seems only right.
Johnny Stew (who was first in line on the morning 'Trouble In Shangri-La' was released, even though he'd had the entire album for a month prior)
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