Bumpy, you are allowed to rip those tags off with your teeth. The store that sold you the mattress, isn't.
This is sorta like the "Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?" question.
The artist makes more money in 5 seconds than I will in my entire lifetime. Music is played 24/7/365 over the air for free. Myself, I cannot afford to pay ten dollars for one album of which only one song in a dozen may appeal to me.
Agonizing over trivial points usurps reality IMHO. There is a lot of fraud out there that hurts people a lot worse than this, and it gets zip publicity.
Robbing an artist of their income ain't cool. However hurting an innocent person is like what (?) thirteen to the thirtieth power more important (?)
Like old Billy Boy said...
"It all depends on the meaning of the word 'is' "