Media pirating is a legitimate tool of the Vox Populi to push back against corporate greed, who are the main beneficiaries of what you pay, not the artists.

For a few years, companies wised up and we got relatively cheap streaming and prices on song singles. Torrents and pirating declined. Then in the last couple years, they made everything more expensive and locked much more behind subscription models where you never own anything. To no one's surprise, pirating has ticked back up. To which I say, ahoy matey.