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The new business model is here, they just don't get it.
Despite costly efforts to build buzz around new talent and thwart piracy
Well, when your "new talent" sucks and you spend money going after the little guy, that'll happen.
Songs to download should cost a quarter. Paying a dollar or close to it for a song that in some cases has limited life/playability, that's a no for me.
As for talent, when they focus on music with a melody and people who can actually sing and stop selling a "look", then they'll get the publics attention.

Paying a dollar or close to it for a song that in some cases has limited life/playability, that's a no for me.

I love the advertising boasts of music players these days, that they can hold 10,000 songs. Pardon me, but to fill that thing up would cost $10,000!

I'll pass.

I love the fact that I don't have to pay for all the extraneous music on the CD, I can buy the song(s) that are good. Artists will have to be artists and REALLY make a LOT of good music, if they want to make money. I have found few CD's on which the music is original enough and worth purchasing the ENTIRE CD. Josh Groban, Maroon 5, Carrie Underwood--whole CD. All the tracks are good. Everyone else gets onsie/twosie purchases, because that's all the music I think is worth my money.

It's a beautiful thing....I can get on i-tunes and find artists that the labels aren't pushing. Radio is such politics and cash...most great artists never make it to mainstream airwaves. Downloading opens up the world to the vast array of music out there we would have never otherwise heard.