I pirate all the time. Its not "fighting the system". Its being a cheap person who doesn't want to wait two weeks for a CD they haven't even heard.
Here is the deal: Many of the Cds I want are not carried physically. I have two options: Order it and wait half a month. Option number Two is a lot better: Buy it for pennies a song if I can't outright download it for free. I got Kazaa and BitTorrent on my computer and if I can't turn up a song using those I buy them from a site like
www.allofmp3.com
Money is too tight to blow it on ordering obscure imports at 16 bucks a pop.