buying and selling

On buying and selling music:
This topic is really broad and pretty difficult to discuss in detail in 250 words or so. Well, let's talk about pirating music first. I'm going to say that music is an art, and different artist produce their work for different reasons. I don't necessarily believe that the intentions of the artist (art for arts sake, or art for money, etc.) really matters when you're experiencing the art for yourself. However, because there are artists that do it for a living, i don't think it's right of people to obtain that music without actually supporting that artist. I mean, we don't go to an art exhibition/sale and take pictures of the pictures we want so we can blow 'em up and put 'em on our walls, so why is it right for us to download music or buy bootleg CD's on the corner/at the barber shop, or wherever theyre being sold. That being said, I'm a broke college student with medical bills, a car note, cell phone bills...you get the picture. So when i want to hear some new music i'm going to download it. On the flip side, that kind of mentality can drive artists to produce better music. I say that because many people say "I download music unless i feel like the artist really deserves my support and my money." I'll leave that point at that and let you guys comment on ur thoughts about that. Now on to the industry side of buying and selling music. The Albini article talks about the big trench of shit people have to swim through to get a deal, and even then it's usually a shitty deal. I've never tried to get a deal, but i know people who have and from their stories, i can't dispute what albini says. Getting into the business is ridiculous and it's a sloppy system because the labels have all the power and strip much of the realness out of groups and individuals. Newly discovered hip-hop icon Drake says "Everybody want a deal, I did it without one." True, but drake also acted on tv for years and had the money to finance his own dream of becoming a part of main-stream hip-hop. Everybody else can't be so lucky and they have to jump through hoops and swim through shit and even then they still can't produce what they want. However, that same terrible system is what produced nearly all the music we enjoy today, so can we really say it's a bad thing?