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 . Do not misunderstand, I do not mean to suggest that a copy of Smells Like Teen Spirit will forever exist. Certainly, I recognize the possibility that every instance, every copy of a certain piece of music may one day no longer exist.