Wil's Rant

The recording industry has been frustrated with the less than stellar performance of it's online business. Apparently I'm not the only one who feels that the price for online songs is slightly high. Make that obscenely high. Now there is word out that they want to increase the price not lower it. Perhaps it's time for a new recording industry that will settle for more normal business profits and hand the savings over to the customer and more importantly, the performers who create the songs. New artists could charge perhaps five or ten cents a song while proven musicians might charge twenty-five, no more. Maybe a buck or buck-fifty for the whole album. This would still be very profitable for music distributed over the internet and be better for the environment to boot. The industry might notice their online sales climb and illegal copying go down.