Music is a commodity, a very easy to produce and distribute commodity. The facts are that the market was artificially controlled for the later half of the 20th century. Musicians, throughout history, have seldom made money. The later half of the 20th century was the anomaly, not the market of today or of prior...

As a musician and someone who spent years in the "biz". Its never going to be like it was in the 70's. Those days are gone.