Indeed. The music industry made a huge mistake when they allowed the streaming services to stream individual songs on-demand/random-access for minuscule payouts. Streaming has long been waiting in the wings to replace radio, but the old tradeoff was, listen to a station/DJ and hope they play the song you want to hear (and get exposed to other songs along the way) or pay money to buy it and listen whenever you want. The microscopic payments would have worked for that, simply with streaming replacing airwaves as a delivery mechanism. But the music labels let the streaming services offer up unlimited-use random-access jukeboxes of all the music for one low price, and suddenly instead of radio play as an inducement to buy, we got streaming as an alternative to buying. And once you provide something so favorable to people like that they soon come to insist on it as a right, so it's going to be very hard to turn that boat around.
The music industry should look for ways to pull back a little, like holding albums as for-sale-only for a while before putting them up on streaming services. Imagine if all the Hollywood blockbusters were available on Netflix the same day they released in the theaters - people would like it, sure (and would soon insist that it had to be that way), but movie ticket sales would tank (which, in the long run, would lead to fewer big budget movies getting made).
