It's hard to find good music nowadays but it is out there if you look for it.

I do believe that the issue with the music industry making less money these days has nothing whatsoever to do with people downloading mp3s. If anything, the availability of mp3s increases sales in the exact same way that playing songs on the radio increases sales. It's advertising the product. If people like the product, they'll buy it. It takes forever to download mp3s and burn them to a CD and the sound quality isn't that great and you have to make a label. Who has time for that? Another issue is that CDs cost too much. The closest Borders to here has the new Eminem CD for $19.99 on sale. With tax that's $21.94. I've paid that much for Jean-Michel Jarre releases that I have to order from Europe, but I don't want to pay that much for o domestic release that's a best-seller. But then again, if they can charge that much for a best-seller, more power to them. I do think they'd sell a lot more CDs if new releases were $9.99 and those that have been out a few months, $11.99. But what do I know, I don't have an MBA from Harvard now do I? I milk goats for a living so I must not have much economic sense. [As a quick aside, I think DVDs should cost less than CDs since you only watch them one or two times and a CD you listen to hundreds or thousands of times and is much more interesting than a movie. I'd buy DVDs for $5 and they'd sell a lot and the studio would make $5 for each person who watches it, or $5/viewing. Instead they sell the DVDs to rental stores for $19.99 and they rent it to 10,000 people so the studio makes $20 for each 10,000 people who watch it, or 1/5 cent per viewing. You tell me which makes more sense economically.]