Ted Nugent in the Wall Street Journal
Common sense is alive and well in America if you’re not stoned, drunk, greedy or just plain stupid. To think that anyone could even argue that Napster [or any other file sharing program] has the right to give away an artist’s product is ridiculous. Hey, I have a good idea! I’ll just stand outside the local grocery store and offer its food free to the public. It doesn’t matter if the owner took the risk, pays all the taxes and overhead, struggles with a bureaucratic land mine field of regulations and laws, invests his warrior work ethic in bucketsful of sweat day after day, and basically busts his butt to provide a quality service and jobs for the community. Hell, no. I’ll just make that decision for him, thank you, and give away his products and hard-earned money. Who does he think he is anyway? The same applies to recording artists. We invest sweat and blood and millions of dollars creating musical products. It takes years of insane sacrifice and grueling tour schedules and intense effort. To think a third party should be allowed to give away our product for zero compensation in brain-dead and un-American.
I think a pretty good point is made here. The term “Un-American,” though, is always a silly conclusion and in my opinion should be avoided at all costs.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 
I don’t think he makes a good point, because the record company makes most of the profits anyway and it seems like the artists that favor his logic are the greedy ones. You know it always kills me how rich rock stars like Ted complain about this and then small underground artists who are technically more affected by it tend to not give a shit or even support it. Ted rocks on guitar, but I never take anything he says outside of his music seriously.
Even though he is obviously not an underground artist, I think the point is better taken for underground artists. Since like a store owner they are almost directly offering a product without constraint from big label execs. ‘Indie’ bands, I think, are more dependent on record sales.
I don’t really see how an artist is greedy if they want money for their work. I honestly cannot, on the other hand, see an argument for taking music, either through illegal downloads or stuff like Napster. I mean, if you want a good or service provided by someone else it seems reasonable to pay them in turn.