The article at Techcrunch:

Stealing Music: Is It Wrong Or Isn’t It?

Arrington makes another impasssioned argument, this time about the issue of downloading music. A point that he missed is that there are thousands, maybe millions, of independent bands and songwriters who would kill for people to download their music. The issue of ‘putting aside the law’ is really only a valid point for the larger bands.

The real benefit of the Web is that music listeners can discover and find new artists that they never would have found on the corporate sponsorsed radio channels. Sure, in some cases, the time of searching is an investment upfront.

But, over time, you’ll have a huge array of bands that completely fill your need for art and music.