I used to buy a CD or two every month. Then I started pirating all of my music (mostly out of convenience). Then pay-per-download options came along (iTunes),

I used to buy a CD or two every month. Then I started pirating all of my music (mostly out of convenience). Then pay-per-download options came along (iTunes), and I used that a bit, but it was still inferior to pirating. Then services like Spotify came along and I'm paying for most of my music again. In total I'm paying less for music than I was paying back when I was buying CDs. But I'm paying more than I was when I was stealing. And in the process we've gotten rid of stamping and distributing CDs, running stores, etc. If record labels can't make money now, their whole business model is screwed. I suspect that the real problem is competition, though, and not profit-per-song.