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Do you work for free? I don't.
If you only download mp3 and never buy CDs you are stealing from all the staff needed to bring the music to market, not just Hamasaki Ayumi and some executives at avex. What about the musicians, composers, mixers, designers, photographers, stylists, custodians, printers, CD factory workers, warehouse workers, managers, etc? All these people deserve to be paid for their hard work. The guy sweeping the studio floors doesn't have a car for every day of the week, and the guy who operates the CD pressing machine can't make money from product endorsements.
I download mp3 because that is the only way I can preview new music, as Japanese music is not played on the radio where I live. When I hear a song I like I buy the CD eventually, even if it takes a few years to save enough money for it. I have hundreds of CDs.
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