Many people hold a flawed perspective about music that the major labels and the record stores love for people to have. The perspective, quite simply, is that when you, a consumer, shell out that 15 bucks per CD, you buy music.
Music is an intangible, eternal form of artistic expression.
A simple concept one must understand lies in the fact that anything that has no mass also has no time. That which has no time, is eternal. That which is eternal, cannot be bought because it merely is . Certainly, I recognize the possibility that every instance, every copy of a certain piece of music may one day no longer exist. The eternity of music lies in the concept of music as an artistic expression.