Re:What do you people want? (Score 1)

First of all, they're not charging $0.25 a song. They're charging a flat monthly fee that divides out to that number only if you download exactly that number of songs every month. If you download fewer, you're screwed, and if next month you want to download a lot of songs, you can't. That's a crappy way to do business. If they ran an Apple-style $0.25/song $2.50/album kind of deal, I'd sign up and use it as avidly as I use the Apple Music Store. But this is a ripoff.

And these business decisions have NOTHING to do with musicians making money from their work. Record companies have, for decades, ensured that musicians make little or no money from their work and are continuing to do so. I'm a blues/jazz/original country musician and listener. The musicians I download from eMusic (or rather used to download) are mostly dead. And when they were alive, the criminal record companies robbed them blind. Barring a few who've successfully sued the thugs that ran those companies, their estates STILL don't make any money from their music.

I'm sorry, but I can find no moral argument whatsoever in favor of wannabe mobsters with no musical talent who lived or are living in luxury while the musicians that made them their fortunes die in poverty.