You'll see more and more artists selling their music song by song from their websites.
Personally I’d like to see most artists selling their music directly via downloads and CD sales from their own websites and affiliated/regional websites plus larger venues like iTunes. Nowadays it’s alot easier to self-produce CDs- even without your own website there’s places like Cafepress and CDBaby.
Radio station managers could really play a big role by having a few hours of special programming dedicated to local and/or “internet” artists. To me, radio is very boring. Even satellite radio I find repetitive (and for no ads they sure do alot of self-promo). If there was a local station that played 80% good “unsigned” bands with little repetition, I might start listening to the radio again.
I see this on myspace, local bands getting a following, making their own CDs and marketing themselves through the internet, depriving the executives of big bucks. I think the new artists themselves are probably happy about this news. I think the industry was spending so much on marketing for a while that artists became indentured servants until they were able to pay off their marketing costs.