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This subject will never be agreed upon by people because we are all so different.
1. Our take on what makes "art" or "good music" will likely differ greatly from person to person. For me personally more great art has been created by an artist that gets to live comfortably than not, but this opinion will differ.
2. People's opinion on the value of recorded music will differ.
3. People's age/perspective/vested interest/background will cause large differences in opinion.
On these subjects I tend to always be leaning on the side of those who look at the stealing as morally wrong, and robbing great potential from music. But i will not use the word "industry" because most of what i associate with that word is the anthesis of what drives compelling music. There is a large industry surrounding todays best artists but all i will agree on is that the industry aspect allows a greater number of these artists to flourish, not that they would not exist at all without the surrounding industry.
I think 15% of the music i hear really moves me, but thats 15% of a large pool thanks to the music industry. So thank you for that! I am grateful for it.
Now the confessionary portion. I personally have purchased thousands upon thousands of cd's, and at least 50 albums online as i've started to be comfortable with the quality of some of them, but in my collection of music I am sure there are dozen's of albums that were not legally purchased. Its wrong and I admit it. I continue to purchase a couple of albums every month as i always have, but the nature of even my generation (I'm 28) is such that I have some of the music that floats around out there. Some of it I even love dearly and have not purchased.
I do purchase more music and have purchased more than any typical consumer, probably 100x more, so although I feel slightly guilty I also feel pulled along with the heard, and i feel like i have given back fairly to recorded music, which I love dearly.
I don't feel any better now, just wanted to share that while we're on topic : )
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