My take is this: Music tracks shall be very inexpensive to the consumer, the lower the cost to a track/album, the more people will actually try to listen to it. I think musicians income should come from performing, not from releasing tracks and albums. Releasing is simply marketing of the artists, to get more and/or better gigs. Therefore, in the extreme case, I would opt for the 99ct to become 0ct.
Personally I dont like the wining of many musicians on low income through releasing! Until we could record music, which was not so long ago, maybe only a little more than 100 years ago, any musician had to earn their money through performing. Why do (many) musicians now think they should earn large amount of money by simply working in the studio for a couple of days, or weeks, and then do nothing while their work is copied gazillion times in a split second?
Excellent points.