I agree with yourself Daniel. If the record companies allows us to download DRM free music at a much lower cost than CDs. If I could get a high quality copy of an album I wish to download for a few (less than 5) pounds and be freely allowed to copy it to a CD, my MP3 player, my laptop and probably to a pen drive or two for backups and get this music very quickly (i.e. quicker than it takes to get through a checkout!) then there is no way I'd spend time searching through P2P networks for songs which can have varying quality and take varying amounts of time to find and dowload.

Of course there is the risk that once you allow this music to be as freely moved as I would like it then it will end up on the P2P networks. However if the music is so cheap and to get from an online shop then it will win. I believe this because it is clear from downloading on P2P networks that what you actually want to find is always surrounded in guff that isn't quite what you want or has a virus attached etc. Basically you'd be happy to pay for the guarantee of getting what you want safely.