Musicians have to eat too, but isn't the reason for our existence to make beautful music and try to get as many people as possible to listen to and enjoy that music? If I were a popular musician, I would know if that in one night 10,000 downloaded my songs (legally or illegally) I would have accomplished my goal. It's about art, not money. I'm just happy that people like my songs enough to pay for them at all, I'm not going to get greedy.
If all music were free, but you had to use a program like Spotify to download it, the industry could easily get sponsers to advertise on that program, and they would pay big. Some customers could pay on a subscription basis and that would be benefitial as well. Songs and albums shouldn't cost money individually anymore, it just won't work.
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