Go Ahead, Steal Some Music Online…

We all know you want to. Seriously, what are you waiting for? I won’t judge you. How many times back in the day did you have to spend weeks saving up to grab the newest CD (remember CDs?) only to get home, skim over the radio jams (remember radios?), and find a bunch of garbage (remember garbage?).

Nah. Eff that. Go ahead and Z Share the shit out of that new Fiddy single. Chances are, it won’t be released anyways, so you got yourself an online exclusive…exclusive…exclusive…exclusive…

Whoa, sorry, Clue got a hold of the keyboard there for a minute.



Seriously, record companies don’t need more money. How much does a blank CD cost? And how much does putting music onto that blank CD cost? Add that up and do you get $17.99? Best Buy sure does.

Now I’m no businessman (I’m actually a business, man), but these record label suits need to take note of how the whole industry has completely shifted gears. Generation ADD isn’t looking to wait for a whole album to come out when all they have to do is track their favorite message boards for every new single.

By the time we have flying cars, CDs will be obsolete. And that’s a good thing. So long as the industry can tap into that trend before it’s too late, we all profit. Music fans will be able to get music as conveniently as possible and the labels will have an entirely new market to rape and pillage. The music industry should keep up with the consumer. So far, it hasn’t. We’ve come a long way from Metallica hosting a press conference to bitch about Napster.

So fire up that T1 and get to record shopping. Don’t do it for your iTunes library, do it for the future of music. Just don’t tell the ‘em TFT sent ya when Johnny Law comes looking for your hard drive.

PS. Sorry Ghost, nothing personal.
PPS. I downloaded seven new Weezy mixtapes while typing this.
PPPS. They all sucked.