I think you will find that the music industry is going to embrace the monthly strategy because it just makes sense to do so. As the consumer you pay $10 a month and that's it. No restrictions on downloads and no time limits. In fact, you're only restricted by the amount of storage space you have.

Think about it, bands X, Y and Z come out with new albums this month. The price to own those new discs would equate to $45 at Best Buy and $30 at iTunes. Through a site based upon the monthly fee methodology it would only cost you $10, plus you would have the opportunity to access anyone of there OTHER tracks in their library.

I would love to pay ONLY $10 a month for digital music. It would save me hundreds of dollars a year in music purchases.

As far as the arguement that you would not OWN the song I really don't care about that. As long as I would have access to that song I'm fine with it. I have hundreds of cds that are just sitting in my room collecting dust. Maybe sometime in the future I will dust off an old cd and listen to it. With the monthly fee methodology I would just redownload the songs I want to hear when I want to hear them, be it tomorrow or 15 years from now.