This one might actually not be pointless

So i was scrolling through absolutepunk.net earlier today and i saw a news story that said the following:

According to this study, those who download music illegally are the same people who spend the most on music.

Now i've just spent about ten minutes going through all of the replies that the story has had so far, and have seen many interesting viewpoints.

About 80% of the people say how they will download something to hear it before buying the album itself, or instead support the band by going to their shows and buying merch.

The other 20% say about how stealing is stealing, no matter how you justify it, it's still wrong.

I personally download a lot of my music illegally, i'm not gonna lie. Most of the time it is because i don't have the money to buy the cd or it is physically impossible for me to find the cd in a record store.

But if you consider the amount of money i spend on gigs, surely that's better?

Barely any money from record sales go to the band, where if you go to a show, more money goes to them to keep them going.

Look at when All Time Low played over here last month. I spent around £40 on three tickets to see them live (One ticket also involved buying their album 'Nothing Personal' which was actually the third copy of that album that i bought). At the shows themselves, i spent £50 on merchandise alone.

If it wasn't for being able to illegally download music, i would never have spent that much money on them, so surely downloading isn't all that bad?

I'm ending this here. Sorry if this made little/no sense or i repeated myself, but i'm half asleep right now and serious blogs aren't my strong point lol.