The record industry rose up to solve a problem: artists needed their music recorded and distributed. Those problems are solved by computers and the internet. It

The record industry rose up to solve a problem: artists needed their music recorded and distributed. Those problems are solved by computers and the internet. It's so cheap to record an album these days its ridiculous, as opposed to 40 years ago when you needed half a million dollars just for a tape machine. The overhead to make music has gone down, and so should the price to listen to it.