Aptly said. These are simply the nature of the times, and those of the industry of today. I see no easy adaptation of the record industry to suit. I'm likely to rigid in my thinking to come up with a good solution.

I'm unsure of how the casual fan would act, but given the behaviour of those of us here and the sold out status of CD Japan, I'm sure that Hikaru would make quite a bit of money on this. She is likely rich enough to have a swimming pool filled with bullion gold bars, I wouldn't be much concerned with her financial losses at this point.