I hear what your saying iamthe_eggman, but unlike pizza, you're not going to pay 12 bucks for a large 3 topping and eat 2 pieces and ignore the rest...(or at least I can't), and with windows...since it's in most computers you buy anyways you usually don't have much of a choice. BTW he hasn't been able to stop windows piracy either.

My point is... Record companies make plenty of profit not to have to gouge us to make an extra buck or so. Not to mention when the comsumer bites back by saying "Hey...why should I spend 20 bucks to buy the cd when I could buy a 100 blanks for 30 and burn my own from KaZaa?" They want to cry "Wahhhhh we didn't make our extra 20 million this last quarter...Let's tell the artists it comes out of their end and get them to push to stop file sharing..." You see who is REALLY getting screwed here...

If they could drop prices of CD's to $15.00 they would get more people coming back to buying them, artists wouldn't have to live on the road for 2 years to try and recoup losses from file sharing, and peace and love would flow throughout the world like sweet,sweet honey from the hive...