Tired of these “celebs” and their overpaid ways

Now, I rarely download. Barely ever in fact. And when I do it’s because it’s either a live bootleg of a concert that can’t be bought in CD form, or it’s something I already have a CD of – my hard drive is a temperamental little bitch and works only when she wants to. So say I want an album on my iPod now, and my hard drive won’t work. I’ll download said album and put it on my iPod. I see no harm in that, since I already purchased the CD, but I’m sure someone else would probably disagree with me though? I don’t download films – I despise watching stuff on my computer and rarely do it, even if it’s something I really want to see. I prefer to await the DVD/box-set. It’s also because I love having a hard copy of something. I love to see my DVD and CD collections grow. For a collector and a hoarder like myself, it’s one of our loves in life. But this all said, I felt slightly cheated the other day when Bruno Mars was cleared of cocaine possession. I had, only two weeks before, purchased his album. Then I find out that he had this coke possession case dismissed because he did some weeks in a drug education programme and some community service. So basically, I forked out twelve euro (that lets face it, I really could have used to put into savings for the new washer/dryer we need at home) of my meager wage for a guy who has so much money he can waste it by snorting it up his nose. I FEEL CHEATED! Yes, I know. I didn’t HAVE to buy music. Just like he doesn’t have to snort cocaine. But I see a major different between the two. And I’m getting very bleeding annoyed at these online ads that crap on about the evils of piracy. I no longer care anymore that the music industry is losing money, not when the money it does get goes up industry peoples nose, into their veins and into the back pockets of drug dealers.
I will never buy a Bruno Mars album again. I’ll download that shit from now on. If even that!