First of all, buying a CD should give you the right to burn copies for your car, your office, your weekend cottage and for wherever else you wish to listen to your music.

I know the major labels would be ecstatic about our buying multiple copies, but that’s just because they have long evolved into art “pimps”, squeezing their gold-egg-laying geese dry.

I will definitely not go to the extreme of supporting the idea that art is not a commodity; in today’s world it would simply sound naive, to say the least. But let’s all focus on the artistic aspect of art and support the sharing that should always be one of art’s cornerstones.

In most cases, burning a compilation CD and giving it to a friend is nothing more than making a statement of our favourite music, and hopefully letting them sample another drop in the ocean that music is in our global village.