"Dealing" With Casual Piracy

The only thing that bothers me about the nature of the music industry is that it's rather limiting in its distribution. Most of the media I download is stuff I cannot get in the local market. It's hard to find music from a garage band that records half-way around the world from you, that isn't signed to a major label. There's no practical way to distribute that kind of thing--oher than of course through filesharing networks, where you can have small groups of people who share the same taste in music and are always trading and exploring each-others tastes. I'm always sorely disappointed when I go to the music store and all I find is top 40. Granted, I do like to support the independent record stores and labels, then again they're mostly just locally produced music, so if I want something from say Germany, that's an independent label I'd be hard pressed to find it even on Amazon.com.

I want variety, which is something that's lacking today, I think. That's why I download.

Jam it back in, in the dark.