Oh, now we're getting all incremental again, like those KY teenagers that weren't so bad because they were just running around and stealing cars, not murdering anyone. A corporation makes an investment in creating intellectual property. They may spend more on that than makes sense to you, but it's their circus, their monkeys. They then offer it for sale at whatever price they determine, and if you decide to buy it, you're buying the intellectual property rather than the recording medium. It's your decision whether the price is fair; you have to determine how badly you want to see/listen to/read it, and whether you're willing to pay that price. It costs about $.50 to make a CD or DVD and all the packaging, so the value is in the content. Taking the content without paying for it is much worse than just sticking the CD in your pocket and walking out of the store with it. Now turn it around. If you were an author or musician, would you think it's ok for people to take your content without paying for it? Yes, there should be a way to buy an individual song vs a whole CD of crap with one good song, and there is now.