Counting the cost of music
Tuesday 8th May 2007, 9:19AM BST.
Our Teen Blogger Rhian asks what teenager doesn’t like music? Problem is, that even though I work in between studying, CDs are expensive.
I can understand why some people might be tempted to buy cheap, counterfeit CDs from car boot traders.
After all, record producers like Simon Cowell and his stars live in the sort of luxury that is difficult for most of us to even imagine and that really, is all part of the problem.
You could argue the morality of the issue forever, but personally I think there’s something that the record producers, artists, counterfeiters and the buyers of counterfeit goods, all share in common and that’s a desire to live the good life.
Morality has been undermined by the power of manufacturing which has made people materialistic, now we must all face the music.
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So in other words, you can understand why people might be tempted to steal? Just because some people in the music industry are wealthy? How can that possibly make it right or acceptable?
Maybe the artists don’t necessarily have a desire to live `the good life’; maybe they just want to make their music, and other people to enjoy it … and get fairly rewarded for it, without those rewards being stolen from them.
How has `morality … been undermined by the power of manufacturing’?
It’s not the power of manufacturing that’s led people to believe they’re entitled to get music and other forms of entertainment for nothing, is it? It’s not the power of manufacturing that’s led you to conclude, implicitly, that because Simon Cowell is rich, it’s OK to rip off the music industry, is it?
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Take a seat on the couch, Allie. Your head must be aching with all that suppressed anger.
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No, it’s aching from trying to work out what this teen blogger is on about
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I can’t afford Gucci or 42″ plasma screen TVs – does that mean I should steal them because I want to live the good life?
Can’t afford music? Listen to the radio. Stealing is wrong irrelevant of which way you try and justify it.
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