Downloading Music

I download a great deal of music. I feel an entitlement to it because I enjoy it so much. It isn't really a matter of supporting the artist; most of the musicians that I listen to are very much not alive. I know that any way you look at it, it is still a variety of theft. That doesn't bother me the way it might. A lot of people ignore the fact that downloading music is illegal; I don't ignore it, but I cannot seem to care. I feel a thorough morality whenever I download music. "Who has the right," I ask myself, "to tell me that I cannot listen to Sarah Vaughn, Eartha Kitt, Maria Callas, or Edith Piaf whenever I choose to do so? I could love them more than anyone else could possibly love them."

I often become very belligerent when I consider the things I love and enjoy. I think, at times, that no one could have as deep and as spiritual an enjoyment as I can have and I feel that my depth of feeling constitutes such a personal familiarity with an artist that I have a right to their art.