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perhaps the easiest solution would be to just sell albums for much cheaper. imagine new albums selling for about $10 or £5 a piece. they're so cheap to produce anyway. people who buy less records now still go to record shops to look around, and if records were selling at a reasonable price like that and not £20 each, they would think "what have i got to lose?" and get it. i suppose In Rainbows kindof provides the evidence here- its selling at an average of about £5 and there have been over a million downloads. their business model works because people have found a price most can agree on. there's no reason why that couldn't work in the shops as well as on the internet.