@blankfrank I discovered classical music when I was young by recording broadcasts on Italy's Radio3 back in the day, and by today I have a collection of hundreds of cassettes. And later in high school I discovered a lot of bands that influenced my style by recording them from alternative rock radios.

I was raised in a quite poor family who couldn't afford to buy CDs or cassettes for their kid at the snap of the fingers. Recording cassettes allowed me to get a level of exposure to music that I would have never had otherwise. Hadn't been for all those recordings, I probably wouldn't have recorded a single song to this day.

And, just like me, there are many who couldn't afford a wide exposure to art in those days, and eventually managed to afford it only thanks to these forms of "piracy".