The value of music

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Newspaper CD giveaways attacked
I love the music industry, I really do. Where else can we get so many people who are obviously from a different planet than the rest of us?? Music "managers" are upset that newspapers are giving away CDs - apparently this "give[s] an impression that music is free". Well, this "music" is free, just like all that stuff on the RADIO...

It also sends a message that music is cheap and disposable

Well well. Since when hasn't popular music been cheap and disposable?? Are you proud of every CD/LP/tape you bought? Don't you wish the ones you want to get rid of had a resale value of more than 50p? In many cases the resale value of something determines its true worth, and in the case of most music that's bugger all.