Morrissey has admitted he has never download any music.

He says he feels "sad" that some people "can love a record that arrives so easily."

The 45-year-old bachelor also tells Italian magazine Les Inrockuptibles he has no sexual secrets and never gets asked out. "I'm boring to death," he says.

On music downloads he says, "I've never downloaded any song from the Internet. I was offered an iPod, I didn't even succeed in opening the box.

"I find it sad. Music deserves efforts. How can you love a record that arrives so easily?

"When I was a child, accessing to the music I loved was difficult. It was not on radio nor TV. Even if music was my only love, it was a permanent fight to get it into my arms."

Morrissey releases a new single, First Of The Gang To Die, from his latest album, You Are The Quarry, on July 12. The track will be backed by three new B-sides, My Life Is An Endless Succession Of People Saying

Goodbye, Teenage Dad On His Estate and Mexico.

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"When I was a child, accessing to the music I loved was difficult. It was not on radio nor TV. Even if music was my only love, it was a permanent fight to get it into my arms."

sounds like one of my dads "when I was a kid" story. I'm sorry he had such a hard time getting music but does that mean everyone should?? I don't think so

If the download was depressingly slow, would Morrissey then DL music? Probably.

Has anyone seen Morrissey lately? He certainly isn't aging well compared to his Smiths days. Neither is the Cure's Robert Smith.

But the fact that music is no longer so hard to get brings up the RIAA's problem. Simple supply vs. demand. If the supply of music exceeds demand, the price must decrease. Of course, the RIAA has not decreased prices, but rather has tried to increase prices as a cartel (which is illegal, last time I read the Sherman Anti-Trust Act). They also tried to force consumers to buy the whole CD instead of singles by eliminating the single. It was impossible to just buy ONE SONG. You could buy it, but you HAD to buy 7-15 other songs with it, whether you wanted to or not.

Finally, America said this is B.S. and we need to find a new way to get that one song we like. Napster was born and the rest is history.

Yeah, INeedAlover, but what the RIAA also fails to realize is that when supply is endless, as is the case with digital music, then no price can be attached to it. Regardless of the demand, there will always be an unlimited supply. Which is why the RIAA has instituted DRM. With DRM, which should really be Digital Supply Management, you can create a limited supply of a song. Most free promos expire after 30 days and do not allow being burned to CD. This forces payment. Of course we know that the RIAA is trying to make it so that songs expire every 30 days forcing you to rebuy it. That's how a limited supply is created from unlimited supply.

Now I know that doesn't make sense, but it's the truth. And until the model changes, it will always be the truth in the digital age.

NiceGuy has it right...this is what the cartel wants..pay per play. However, there will also always be someone who can get around this nonsense. Not to mention, if you can hear it you can record it. Unless the RIAA will amputate every person's eardrums and implant digital-wired-to-the-brain recievers that requires a monthly fee just to hear anything at all.

pinemikey and you know if they could they would.

"When I was a child, accessing to the music I loved was difficult. It was not on radio nor TV. Even if music was my only love, it was a permanent fight to get it into my arms."

And I had to walk five miles to school in three feet of snow with no shoes. And it was uphill both ways!

Oh, s#$t. This guy actually is not RIAA safe. And I own a lot of his albums. I can't believe this guy can be so patetic. I thought this guy is cool