EDIT: I misread: it's $5 per month not per day. The fact that the surrounding market sucks does not make this intrinsically better. It's the same situation as

EDIT: I misread: it's $5 per month not per day. The fact that the surrounding market sucks does not make this intrinsically better. It's the same situation as rent, except that a DAW is not the living necessity that a home is. If the best deal you can get is to buy someone lunch every day, that's still prohibitive enough to price a lot of people out of the digital music scene. That's terrible for the market of creativity.