Stevan,
People in your area are morons or are oblivious to the corporate greed and devousness that make up the RIAA. Every dollar or yen or whatever currency spent in your music shop, is another dollar to line the pockets or the music robber barons of the 21st century. You should be proud that your area is full of such idiotic and out of touch people.

They don't care that the RIAA pays pennies on the dollar to artists, locks them into unfair contracts, tells them what songs are acceptable and what songs will make it on an album, how to dress, when and where to perform, and so on...

Not to mention these frivilous lawsuits against children and the parents, that target the poor and disinfranchised... It is loathesome to think that no one cares about what companies like BMG, Sony, Virgin and so on are doing, and how they've banned together under the RIAA to attack their potential customers...

Maybe if the knobs in your area were to wisen up you'd be out of a job?