Buying and Selling Music

Thoughts on the buying and selling of music...I think that's kind of a broad topic. After reading the articles I think that artist, at least not-so-famous artist, aren't getting paid nearly enough. I think that during the recording process and everything else that goes into getting an album ready and advertising an up and coming artist, all the expenses should be cheaper. Either that or They need to make the price of CDs more expensive for consumers just to compensate for the money that the artist isn't getting. Making CDs more expensive probably isn't the best idea though because that would probably end up leading to fewer CDs being sold in stores and possibly more music being downloaded off the internet for free. So something should change to make sure that the artist is getting paid more than he or she is now, but I don't really know how to solve this problem. Any ideas?? I'm sure we'll be talking about this a lot tomorrow but I bet that nothing will happen to help out these mid-level artists for a long time. On buying music, I don't really think that the prices of albums should go up. I think that they are already pretty expensive. I just don't see how you can put a price on music. Of course I agree that the artist who made the song or album should get paid for the awesome job that they did but I just don't want to fork up that 12-15 bucks for a CD. And I know that we talked about this the other day too; If you do end up buying a CD you want to make sure that you get absolutely everything out of it that you can. Even if it means making yourself like a song on the album that you normally wouldn't like. I know that if I buy a CD I'm gonna make sure that I milk it for all it's worth. I'm gonna listen to every single song on that album and I'm gonna like it.