Who are the ones paying for you to download your music?

Have you ever thought what would happen if everyone were to download their music off the web? If everyone gets to listen to their favourite music without paying?

There wouldn't even be good music for these people to download in the first place! You think music actually comes free, like music to your ears? No, there's someone out there forking out money, and it is definately not you. So, who are the ones paying?

It's actually the ones willing to unload their wallets for good, original music that's paying. Think about it. If no one is going to fork out money for good music, then the music industry would probably just dwindle and die, because then going into music wouldn't be a worthy investment because there are going to be no profits and maybe even losses, and the occasional album that comes out sounds like an exact replica taken off someone else's album.

Is it any wonder then that record companies go to extremes to get people to pay for original music? A cd album is no longer just a cd, it comes with freebies like posters and stickers of your favourite artists so you can stick their pretty faces all over your bedroom walls. With company going into such aggressive promotion mode to prop the music industry up, should consumers then do something?

The answer lies in how far a distance you are willing to go.