You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim D. Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Kot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today, on the world's only rock and roll talk show, Jim and I are going to visit with

sample-based composer Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk.

Plus we'll talk to the multi-grammy-winning artist who beat Elvis to the top of the charts.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for the music. Two studies in recent days, Jim, telling us a lot about what kind of music we listen to,

specifically what our children are listening to.

You and I both have daughters that will be

affected by some of the data in this study. They're in these demographics.

Yes exactly. The first study from the NPD group shows that 70% of US kids age 9 through 14 are downloading music in a given month.

That's an extraordinary figure. About 50% of them are using iTunes, but 26% of them are using the

the unsanctioned peer-to-peer file sharing service

lime wire that's showing that a lot of these kids are

downloading music illegally and could potentially be subject to recording

industry association lawsuits. They're chastising parents for not keeping a

close enough eye on their children here. NPD analyst Russ Kropnick says

the music industry hoped that litigation and education

might encourage parents to keep better tabs on their kids digital music activities.

But the truth is, many kids continue to share music via peer to peer.

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