Music costs a lot

What do ya all think about downloading music from the internet?! Come on... we all do it, stop pretending you are all innocent and dignified. I was reading this news on the taiwanese website; a 16 yr old girl was arrested for downloading some songs (and provide for other ppl to download) that probably haven't even come out of the stores yet. I don't know what i would do if i were living in taiwan; i would probably say proudly that "i will always buy the real albums." But because i don't live in taiwan, even though they do sell 'some' CD's here, they are hard to get and all priced at an incredibly/rediculously high price. So i have a choice to either download songs from the web, feel guilty, or pay a high price for the CD's and suffer. I would always buy the actual CD if it was Jay's, of course. And i used to buy some at the price of $25 a piece when i was young and didn't know nothing about money. Now i cannot do that, and i hate that i cannot get the real albums... and pirating...