Maybe its time for the record bidness to decline.
Why should a few weeks work on a record create some illusion that it is valuable in the tens of millions of dollars?
Perform. Sell tickets. Earn money the old fashioned way.
Records are advertising, not a product. That’s the whole problem right there.
In the 1960s a band might put out 2 or 3 albums a year. Today they spend a year on it and tour and then put another out in another year or 2.
I saw a documentary on fuzz pedals where a Queen of the Stone Age whined that the resistor he used to replace the one in his fuzz pedal (replacement taped by the manufacturer to the inside of the pedal) gave it a totally different sound than the other resistor did and that it ruined 4 weeks work on ONE TRACK.
Guitar wank much?
Advertising for the lousy products.
Bozos in music industry make deliberatelly warped sound on CDs, so when it is ripped to shallow MP3 it gives an illusion of heft.
And they expect that people will shell out $15 for this crap?
Or reissuing the same albums over and over, to fix shoddy mastering in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Music business has to make up their mind: do they sell RIGHTS to listen or they sell PRODUCT?
If they sell PRODUCT, buyer becomes THE OWNER and can do with it what he/she pleases.
OTOH, if they sell RIGHTS OF USE, I have the right to bring faulty mastered Kind of Blue and get replacement free of charge, or replacement if "best sound forever" disc becomes unplayable.
File sharing is not new, it exists for the last 50 years and it actually helped music business. It was R2R and cassette taping operated over the sneakernet.
The Key problem of the music industry is unprecedented greed of the people who have no ears to hear their own product.