Oh believe me, I agree, and I do understand your justification, although I think the production is alot more than you're chalking it up to be.

I agree that piracy of any material is not good, otherwise why would they call it piracy? I think it's stupid that the legal justification for MP3'a and emulators are "if you own it at home, you can download it." Yeah right, like I'm gonna believe that you don't have a CDROM in your PC in the year 2000.

And I also think that singles cost so much because they know that people will pay more for it, not because it's worth that much more. The popularity of a single, let alone an album, is purely objective on the larger scale. What I mean is that at this particular pathetic point in time, a backstreet boys single off a backstreet boys album is going to be worth more than a Screaming Trees single off a Screaming Trees album (who? my favorite band. www.allmusic.com). Yet the two albums, if released at the same time, will usuall cost the same regardless. It's the store's policy (particularily how much to charge for the full album), and that's what we would avoid by buying it online.

Example: there's a store called Record Town in the mall where I live. Rental prices in this mall are extremely high based on the mall's entire east coast reputation (don't ask me why). I saw Binaural by Peral Jam there for $19. $19!!! So I went to the local Best Buy and bought it for $12. $12!!!

I don't want to drive from store to store anymore. Just let me download!!

DiGNAN