I completely agree with the guy who's post directly precedes mine. I buy music left, right and center. On a slow month I only buy 5 or 6 albums. I once bought an album based on a 30 second clip I heard in a commercial (as it turned out I made a good choice with that one). I'm not heavy into the mp3, or burned copies of discs. Out of my collection (which at last count was pushing 300), I only have 3 burned copies of cd's. 2 of them I ended up buying, and the third is Danger Mouse's "Grey Album" which can't be bought. Almost everything I buy is because I heard it from the interweb, radio has been on a rapid decline for years.
Stealing a dollar because of downloading from recent hit teen singing sensation is forgivable, however taking one from the pocket of an indie band is shameful.