Rodman's Representation of Music

Being a UMass student in today's day and age is far different from those who had come before. One of my most apparent and vivid memories of being a freshman four years ago was my discovery of the (now infamous), i2hub. Being an avid record collector (both vinyl and cd form), I at first felt apprehensive to hop onto the filesharing bandwagon. What was the purpose? I felt it took away from the physicality and closeness felt upon purchasing a new piece of music. Similarly, I was also dead scared of being sued like the rest of the university has been since then. Despise my apprehension, i2hub (and later Soulseek) became my sole form of new music discovery in my life. For people who know me and my personality, music and the discovery of underground bands is my number one and sole hobby. Oddly enough, my assumptions on filesharing culture were entirely false.