Buying a CD gives little to the artist (Score 1)

I usually download music for free...why should I pay $12 for a CD so that the artist can get fifty cents and the suits get all the rest? I don't think so. I will happily buy music from an artist's website or go see them on tour when they get most of the money or at least a respectable share of it. But I have to power to punish the music industry for their evil practices and I use that power often.