Update . . . looks like Napster is going to be around for a little bit longer. I'm glad.

Saying that it encourages people not to buy music seems like so much bullshit to me. Maybe I'm different from all the other people who use Napster (although I doubt it) but my music-buying has stayed at a pretty high level since Napster came on the scene. One reason is I'm a person who likes music (duh), which is why I like Napster and why I buy CDs. They're not mutually exclusive.

I guess if people have really fast connections they can download whole albums. That's fine for people who don't care about liner notes and all the rest. But if I like the music I would soooo much rather have the real CD. I love the cover and the artwork and all that.

But I do know lots of younger folks (people who were in college during the 90s) who don't care as much about that. Lots of them leave their CD cases at home and take their discs off to school in these binders/CD holder things, so I guess they get used to not having the covers. I can't do without them, myself.

When I thought Napster was going down I downloaded as many Bob Dylan songs as I could. Hee hee.