[oudplayer]

To the OP:
I bought hundreds of albums while a college student and working for $5.25 an hour at $hit jobs. If it's really important to you, you'll budget for it, or you'll work extra hours. You don't have to have a cell phone, you don't have to eat overpriced fast food out, you don't need to own a car (well, in many locales), you don't need...

It's a choice you make. You don't have an inherent right to listen to any recording you want, whether it's easily available through means that you admit you know are illegal.