Typical liberal response by music companies. Property rights typically isn't a liberal issue.
They fail to realize that the reason they are losing market is that the state of music is crap nowadays along with the music.
Maybe, but they can still fight what is theft of their product.
Further, radio stations have been taken over by corporations who are restrictive that there is no longer freedom of music. Blame the PC but it looks like high time to break the monopoly of corporation on how they control radio markets. With the Internet, musicians can now control and sell their music instead of through the bloodsucking studio/label corporations. Internet radio once broadband is prevalent should give them outlet to play and market their music.
An artist is free to sell his or her music to whomever. They can sell it to a small company, or they can sell it to a multinational media company. But like it or not, multinational media companies typically have much better advertising and distribution than small companies. If you don't like the music, or you think it's too expensive, then don't buy it. But don't justify stealing it because it's too expensive. That's never really a good argument.
You don't get the picture or you are typical of those who delude themselves into thinking they are being more conservative than others because they believe in unrestrained capitalism. There is always a balancing point which eventually lurches to the left when it gets too big. Big corporations resemble big governments. The bigger they get, the less freedom and creativity is supported and they eventually stagnate or rely on past glories. It works generally good with commodities but not with everchanging products. The entertainment industry is stagnating which is no surprise as it has been taken over by liberals. Artists and DJs are no longer free to use radio or TV as a medium to promote their music because everything is now prepackaged and marketed according to big corporations who think they know better. This was not so in the past as the freedom and outlets to express yourself existed - look at prevalent PC behavior is in big cities and big corporations. The only reason music companies have lasted this long is due to the changes in the media (LPs/reel to reel to casettes/VCRs to CDs/DVDs, etc.)which allows them to resell their back catalogue at total profit, not because of musical creativity which is diminishing since the 90s.