No Direct Audio Recording With Quicktime

Could someone please help me to troubleshoot this Quicktime audio problem? Running 10.8.2. When I try to do screen recording it doesn't record the audio section. I do not want to use the mic but record what is going throught the speakers. I read somewhere that Quicktime can't do this but that is silly for a company like Apple not to include audio recording, when many other screen capture programs easily do. Am I missing a patch or update of some kind? Would adding Soundflower fix this issue?

Is there a link to do this?
Here is the general link to the Apple Product Feedback page listing products: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Here is the link to the QT Product Feedback Form: http://www.apple.com/feedback/quicktime.html
The way Quicktime is now, it is worthless (screen capture wise) unless you want to capture a Charlie Chaplin movie...
Than mab be the point. (I.e., they may not want you to be capable of copying movies playing on you screen.)

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