How to solve the music industry's woes?

Price a CD so Joe Schmoe might actually buy it!

I'm one of those freaks who actually buys mountains of new music -- quite a bit of it never heard and purchased on the reccomendation of friends or reliable reviewers -- and I've gotta give props to Universal for finally figuring out that when a CD costs about four bucks or less to make the general public is gonna be less likely to buy your product without feeling like the butt of a particularly brutal joke. It only took them, oh, twenty years to figure this brain-teaser out....

How not to solve the music industry's woes?

Make a call for a Nazi-like registration in order for consumer to gain amnesty from a completely clueless corporate entity.

How very Blade Runner. Philip K. Dick would be proud.

When will these people get it? Try to find ways to exploit the resources at hand rather than blaming John and Jane Q. Public for actually advancing with the times. Would I pay for legal, high-quality downloads like especially rare cute, b-sides, live and unreleased stuff? Hell yeah!

Is that sort of service available to me right now? Hell no!