Online Music Sales

"Ya know, Apple sells mp3's for $0.99 per each. To get an entire album costs as much as a CD or MORE. So the music company doesn't have the freakin costs of production or of distribution other than the website and site maintenance. So why is the music as high or higher? To drive up CD sales?

Nope. It just encourages music-heads to steal is what it does.

So, here's a pricing structure that makes sense to me. I would SO go to a site and BUY my mp3's if I found a place to do it like this:

Single mp3 = $1
Three = $2 (two more @ $.50)
Seven = $3 (four more @ $.25)
Twelve = $4 (five more @ $.20)
and $.15 for every mp3 over 12

I could buy 'albums' for less than the price of a CD, but the company loses NOTHING because it is selling electrons. I can also buy only the tracks I WANT of an album, and mix-and-match as I like. The company and artist(s) get paid and more music is sold than EVER before. Happy consumers, happy producers. What the hell is wrong with that?

Also, I don't want to pay to download only the latest-and-greatest crap on the Top 40 list, or the zillion-repeated 'oldies' from Top 40 lists of yore. I want to replace so many groovy older tunes of an eclectic nature from long-gone collections of mine or my parents, etc. Like Danny Kaye singing 'Little White Duck,' or Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing 'Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth' on TV, or Pete Seeger singing 'Guantanamera,' or Ed Ames singing 'Who Will Answer?'

Each record company should take their ENTIRE catalog from when dinosaurs ruled the recording studio and make that stuff available again as mp3's and make money off of stuff that's been out of print for generations and making NO money for them now.