Another Victory for File Sharers

Are you tired of walking into places like Tower Records, Sam Goody, and Virgin Megastore to find CDs priced at $18.95 mocking you from their polished racks? Are you one of the many that are currently pulling for the thieving bastards of the recording industry to get their great and just comeuppance? Well, in the midst of the RIAA's futile battle against music piracy and the worst decline in retail record sales in history, Universal Music Group has just announced that they are drastically slashing the prices of their records. It's about damn time.

Will this be enough to save the music industry as it exists today? Hell no. This is just the beginning of the end for those greedy thieves. That said, it'll probably be enough to get some of the other majors to slash prices, too, which means that for the time being, at least, the average working man can afford to buy music again. That is, if he can't find what he's looking for on Soulseek.

Time to stock up on some old Jimi Hendrix Records.