RIAA
I used to have a little section called the “Friday Buy,” where I listed and rated the CD’s that I bought. Unfortunately, over the last few months, I don’t think I’ve made a single CD purchase.

Considering the RIAA’s latest round of heavy handed persecution of file swappers, and the Music Industry’s convicted oligopolistic inflation of CD prices (FTC Lawsuit), and despite the industry’s laughable announcement that CD prices will be cut (Register story) I am going to make a difficult choice.

I’m going to work to no longer buy new CD’s. The RIAA and the record industries will lose a sale, and some Mom-and-Pop shop will gain one. It makes buying CD’s negligibly cheaper, although much more inconvenient.

Some could argue that the artist is hurt by this tactic, but given the minute amounts that most bands make on a CD sale, I would argue that the tactic even on a large scale is negligible for the average artist, but is damaging to the global corporations that distibute them.

It’s legal, simple, and passively agressive.

Now, that Wesley Willis is dead, there’s no real reason to buy CD’s, anyway.

Posted in Anger, Music