Should they be legally allowed to download music for those reasons? No comment. I would say yes, download the music (especially if $50 a disc) but it wouldn't matter because I am not the law.

In New York I've gone through areas where there are a lot of Indian music and movies being sold but I guess that doesn't exist everywhere. For German music, you can buy from Amazon.de right? In any case, I don't know what kind of music you want anyway, maybe it's not that easy to find...

I hate the RIAA and the record labels. CD prices are almost as high as DVD prices, and DVDs are much harder to distribute over the net and have many more added features. The recording industry has had years to try to adapt by adding features or lowering prices but what have they done? Universal lowered the prices a bit but that's about all. The RIAA insists that the labels need to keep the prices high because of marketing costs. Well, I don't feel like paying $15 for something that should be more like $4-$5 just because they spend millions to promote Britney, Justin, and all the other crap they want you to buy. They even insisted on their site that we should be happy that CD prices have been stable over the years (when everything else is getting cheaper). Rant over, sorry.