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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

Steal This Album

It’s pretty well documented here that I haven’t gotten an album legally for a minute now, and I know I’m not the only person who hasn’t gotten an album at least a week before it actually hit stores. There have been two exceptions where I actually bought a hard copy, but I don’t think it really counts when a) it’s been almost two years since I done so and b) I had the “special advances” beforehand. Perhaps in my misguided judgment I felt as if a portion of my $14.06 would have been put to better use other than line the pockets of a greedy TI, but chalk that up to my naïveté if anything.

* pats external hard drive * Never again.

Now if anything if I even catch a whiff of anything being leaked, I almost instantly scour the Internets with a fervor that’s equal parts forced cheapskate (where the hell is my “stimulus” check?”) and untrusting consumer. I think I can speak for everyone who’ll read this shit when I say that I’d rather spend my hard-earned wages on something that would actually prove beneficial in the long run, like ribbed condoms or something.

If anything, the fact record sales all around are down the tubes is almost deserving, given the gluttonous voracity of the game’s major players. Thanks to an unwillingness to adapt to the times and cater to their target demographic instead of forcing it down our collective throats and expecting we take it with a Coke and a smile, the record labels are now struggling to remain relevant, even resorting to shady tactics to do so.

A few days ago I came across an old Blender piece on the record company’s fuck-ups, and after reading it I couldn’t help but feel a little sense of pride knowing that my so-called illegal actions – as if payola, spyware and attempted monopolization isn’t – is responsible for such a radical change in climate. I wish I had known about this back when I was stealing limited-edition comic books back in high school. Then again, I always yoked albums from the BMG service in high school, so it’s not like I supported music in the first place.

Now in order to save face one of the majors are taking a page out of Radiohead’s book, offering a “variable pricing program” of sorts, which would make perfect sense had they not previously try to tack on an extra fee onto our basic Internets access bill beforehand, which was just asinine in the first place. If anything it shows how low these muttonchopped power mongers are willing to stoop, not to mention how little they actually care about the consumer. If that’s the case, I may start throwing full albums out; a proverbial “fuck you” of sorts. They’ve already sued a single, lower class mother for well over $200,000 for downloading music, so it’s not like they’re going to get anything of value out of me anyways.

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