well, interwebs, i am going to try make a post of some substance. it is on the subject of illegal downloading of music. i have been a longtime music thief, and for the most part i had no moral problems stealing hundreds of songs off the Internet. then, this man changed my view.
for those of you who do not know, that is ronnie winter of red jumpsuit apparatus. this dude is totally awesome. he overcame a lot of stuff, including a crack addict mother, and alcoholic father, both of which were abusive. anyways, i was listening to an interview he did for the ap podcast where he said some stuff that made me think. essentially he said that when the band was first starting out, they couldn't make any money, and when people downloaded their music illegally, they couldn't afford to eat. this made me feel extremely guilty. i've heard this said from people, but never from the artist directly. while it has taken a while to finally set in, i am putting my foot down.
from now on i will not download any more music illegally. i will also start getting rid of my pirated copies of songs, a few at a time, at least one a day. i figured that this will give me enough time to replace the songs with legitimate copies.
well that's my beef for this time followers, stay classy.
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