MY BROTHER THE PIRATE

  • “We were both heavy users of cassettes, the Napster of their day, and it turned us, not into habitual music thieves, but into devoted collectors of hundreds of LPs and then CDs. He [my brother] would have gladly paid a reasonable fee – $1, say – to download a song like ‘Summer Breeze,’ but he would never spend $15 on a full Seals & Crofts CD. And having Napster would not stop him from buying a CD by an artist he was more passionate about.” – Chicago Tribune