RIAA, F*ck You! What are you doing to Apple's iTunes

Times have changed, sure, people have now been downloading music for years and the industry as a whole is changing. To fight this change lawsuits have been launched, companies have been closed down, and the channels that you can legally get music through have been crushed or pinched.

• You sue the very people who are out there buying your CDs (sure, they downloaded a couple thousand songs, but they would not have bought those CDs anyway).
• Now you are putting pressure on Apple to raise their rates on iTunes. Why? Cause you guys are greedy f*cking bastards. An average CD has what, 17 songs...at $0.99 each that $16.83, I don't buy CDs over $14, and CDs are significantly higher quality (iTunes is only 128 bit MP3s), they come with the CD insert booklet and packaging, and part of the cost built into CDs covers the cost of the storefront and shipping. On iTunes, sure there's a storefront that has a cost associated (Apple), but what about the packaging, shipping, distribution, labor?

I encourage you to read this Slashdot article and some of the comments that have been posted by people like me and you who enjoy music but want to stop companies like the RIAA from ruining music and turning it into something we will all steal if they keep trying to price fix. Something I thought was illegal in most places in this country.