Sheesh, I know I am late for the discussion, but I'm going to expel a small rant anyway
I download music for a few reasons.
The main one being I can't buy the album locally, as is the case with many Anime albums.
Second, I hate paying $15-$20 for a CD with only 1-2 good songs on it. If a group makes an album with more than 2 decent songs on it, instead of just one hit with 15 "filler" songs, then yes, I would buy it. However, I haven't bought a CD since I got Dream Theatre's newest CD.
Well, it seems that not all people like the same type of music, so to make #2 a little easier to deal with, I have come up with a solution: Have high-quality CD burners in stores. Have a digital jukebox set up so people could choose what songs they want on their CD. They pay per song, and a small amount for the actual disk, and BAMMO! Every song is to your liking. I would defintaly drop coins to get CD's that way.