I suspect mostly because I started making music in an age when duplicating a CD was not possible and MP3 hadn't happened. I view my music projects as producing

I suspect mostly because I started making music in an age when duplicating a CD was not possible and MP3 hadn't happened. I view my music projects as producing something and then working to get it into customers' hands. Radio stations would play our music and not pay us any royalty (except the songwriter portion), and that was fine. Enter MP3 and suddenly musicians are looking at a hostile world where their primary consuming demographic believes it is silly to pay for music at all. Bands have traditionally felt screwed by labels, now their customers are screwing them. Apple sets up a service where the labels contribution to the free trial period results in no revenue for bands and that's the distributor screwing them. That makes it pretty much the entire industry top to bottom. I don't see it that way. Apple Music will likely tap a huge population that doesn't currently have a streaming service which is a great thing. As far as "losing" micropayments from song plays during the trial… If someone is forced to listen to my song by their robot DJ and doesn't care enough to come see a concert or buy something, or listen to it in the future… that wasn't really a sale I missed out on. That was some poor schmuck that wasted 4 minutes of his listening time on my song and in some alternate economic system would have paid me for the privilege, but didn't. Also: I'm eating in August no matter how this plays out.