So do the labels and so do the bands. It's already happening. Free downloading of commercial, copyrighted music is going to be very rare very soon. Streaming music sites will soon vastly overshadow the download sites. Downloading is an awkward mess anyway.
Net radio is just about to blast off.
Sites with hundreds of specialist 'stations' are springing up all over the place - that make payments to labels, musicians, song writers and others who deserve to get at least a small part of the pie they made. Streaming is easy, clean and neat. Sites like WWW.COM have hundreds of thousands of mainstream songs to listen to and will soon allow you to make your own play lists you can save and listen to again from anywhere you have access to the Web - home, work, car, jogging, etc. As wireless access blasts off you will be able to listen to your own custom net radio play lists. For free if you can handle ads or for a subscription fee like cable TV charges now.