In my experience, most of the RIAA-hating nerds who swear they’ll never to buy another album again continue to download copyrighted, RIAA-financed music from less-than-legal sources (and I’ve done it, too, so simmer down). What’s crazy, though, is that if you really don’t want to bend any laws, there is a wealth of free music online — and The Red Ferret Journal just set up a Wiki (a user-edited web page) to make it even easier. There are hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable songs on the websites listed (some of them are even not techno) and thousands more non-RIAA-backed labels selling songs, too — so if you really want to fill up that iPod without “stealing music,” you do have an option to do so.
Mainly, though, I just wanted you to feel extra guilty when you download RIAA music anyway.
