> Music has been pretty darn cheap to reproduce for decades. in a sense yes, but it depends on what you refer to by 'cheap'. other factors like convenience, a

> Music has been pretty darn cheap to reproduce for decades. in a sense yes, but it depends on what you refer to by 'cheap'. other factors like convenience, availability, quality, storage, etc. were often quite different. it's one thing to wait around for your song and then tape if off an FM radio broadcast, another to just download some 'lossless'-encoded bits off the web at will.