P2P and a mixed cd

I am one of those people that does think it's important to support artist say most of my itunes is paid for...which is depressing when I look at how many songs I have.

I do love it though, when i get a fun mixed CD from a friend, but how is that not the same as downloading music I have not paid for? I almost always download a copy onto my personal library, and therefore get a copy of the music for free. I do, however, have a friend who is very strict about this, and won't take CD's from people unless he had the music himself, I'm not this strict about it.

With Kazza, the music of our middle school years, it was just so easy to download the music, I would find myself downloading songs I had never even heard before. Now with iTunes and the feature to sample 30 seconds of the song before buying, and it just as easy to find what you are looking for.

I do however, agree with Tori that music is expensive, and that more people would cut back from illegally if music was cheaper.