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Only Wal-Mart has demonstrated that it can be a venue for defying lifestyle thieves and moochers. It's customers still buy stuff on spec. Some of the best-selling CDs were sold through Wal-Mart in 2008, by artists who realized selling it anywhere else would simply be killing themselves. AC/DC's CD, "Black Ice," released in autumn, became one of the biggest selling units of the year -- at $48 million -- in part, because the band stubbornly refused to cater to the Internet's digital and freetard audiences. In this way, it preserved its art.

Pop star KATY PERRY was forced to battle with record label bosses because they originally wanted her to copy AVRIL LAVIGNE.

When the I Kissed A Girl hitmaker was starting out in the industry, every music chief she encountered encouraged her to follow in the footsteps of Lavigne, whose punk pop style was ruling the charts at the time. But Perry was determined to stick to her own image, even if it meant turning down lucrative offers from several record labels.

She says, "When I first started at 17, the hit song was Complicated (by Avril Lavigne) and everyone wanted me to write a Complicated. I said, 'Look, that's her and this is me. Everybody loves her song and hopefully everyone will like mine.'"