There are some good points made on this thread, and I did appreciate the thought that went into the 'guests' who regularly download music for free. It may or may not be true that downloading doesn't affect sales, it may be that it is good publicity, etc. But I think the crucial thing here is that the musician needs to be the one to make the decision as to whether or not they wish to make their music available for free download or not. For someone to decide that another person's music should be made available for free doesn't seem right to me.