Nearly all of my CD purchases in the last 12 years have been based on music I found on the Internet. The radio stations around here are useless for finding new music because they don't dare play anything more than the industry singles.

Now I won't be able to find new music on Usenet, P2P, or the radio. That leaves me with nothing but a 20 second sound bite, the cover art, and maybe a garble-fi YouTube video as tools to find new music. I need more convincing than that, especially when every music purchase feels like giving money to a criminal organization.

I'll rip all my older CD into iTunes for another listen. I need something to listen to until the music industry's suicide is complete.