Who's making excuses? People make their choices. Get caught, it's a fair cop guv. I like to try albums before I buy them. I'm fed up with buying rubbish albums that are sold on the back of one or two good singles. The record companies don't care about the artists, they're protecting their own profits. They took CD-WOW to court because they were undercutting their ludicrous CD price fixing, so fcuk 'em.

And I find your patronising attitude about people's employment status rather condescending. In a wonderful capitalist society like ours there will always be unemployed and poor people. Live and let live.