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The Art Of The Leak

At the risk of making myself vulnerable for the RIAA’s terrorist-like raids, I’ll admit that most of the songs and albums that occupy my iPod were not acquired legally; In fact, most of my catalogs of songs aren’t. I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere in between the increasing number of bad albums and the advent of high-speed Internet I just stopped buying records.

While I do understand that my little contribution may be part of the cause for the decline in sales – not to mention the possible demise of the record industry as a whole – at the same time, can you really blame me? Alongside the aforementioned rise in bad music, also add to that the increasing prices of CDs and the drop in local and major stores that carried records, and you have nothing more than me wasting transportation money going to some random record store a good ten miles away to purchase an album I wouldn’t let my pet turtle use as a pillow. In that sense, what’s the point of buying records?

It also doesn’t help that once I’m in the mood to find obscure music (which has become more frequent than ever before, thanks to said bad music), it’s either nowhere to be seen, or ridiculously expensive once they are located. A shining example of this would be my search for what I consider part of my “holy grail” of records: Raekwon’s magnum opus, Only Built For Cuban Linx... Now, I was on my way to purchase my fifth copy of the album (and first on CD, as I was very reluctant to give up on tapes until earlier this decade), as it had been mysteriously “borrowed” and never returned. After searching in about four record stores throughout the city, I had finally found it on my fifth try... for $18.99 (mind you, this album at the time was several years old already).

However, I do have my limits. I’ve never been one to get an album of an artist or group I genuinely enjoy without purchasing its official release. Unfortunately, that happens so few and in between that I’ve only bought approximately four albums in the past two years, including the one I copped this year.

Obviously, you can see the dilemma I face here. But as long as this trend of fantastically awful music and ridiculously insane prices continues, I’ll keep loading up my iTunes with music I’ve acquired from my good friends SBC and Wi-Fi.

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