Name: Poor People Don't Deserve Music!
Duration: P00H01M50S
Description: Obligatory song-that-has-an-exclamation-point-in-the-title about how I've downloaded a lot of music in my time. I grew up in poverty with a capital poor, so I couldn't afford to go out and buy my music, so I got it in less-than-legal ways. Take it at face value and ask yourself: What should be more important to the musician, the fact that you love their music, or the fact that you paid for it?

Poor People Don't Deserve Music!

from Space Stuff by Nathaniel Liles

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Obligatory song-that-has-an-exclamation-point-in-the-title about how I've downloaded a lot of music in my time. I grew up in poverty with a capital poor, so I couldn't afford to go out and buy my music, so I got it in less-than-legal ways. Take it at face value and ask yourself: What should be more important to the musician, the fact that you love their music, or the fact that you paid for it?

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Alritasdoit! Uh, two, three, four!

I had a friend the other day
Who had the nerve to come and say
That I was robbing all my favourite artists

I download music illegally,
An obscene act of robbery (Just disgusting!)
I guess I'm too poor to listen to it

Because poor people don't deserve music
No, poor people don't deserve to hear me sing
Poor people don't deserve music

How dare I think that you guys rock?
Now, this might come as quite a shock...
But I can't pay a dollar a song

But I never would've heard your song
And I never could've sung along
If I didn't rape the industry

Because poor people don't deserve music
No, poor people don't deserve to hear me sing
Poor people don't deserve music
(Super-manly laugh)

So don't come down on all the fans,
I buy my music, but I can't (He can't!)
I'd be in debt all the way up to my tuning pegs

And don't think we should feel the lash
Because we don't have lots of cash
We still love your music

But poor people don't deserve music
No, poor people don't deserve to hear me sing
Poor people don't deserve music

One more time! (Alright!)
Poor people don't deserve music
No, poor people don't deserve to hear me sing
Poor people don't deserve music

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from Space Stuff, released June 25, 2013

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