A month or two ago, I bought a pay-what-you-like model album on the Internet for about the same price I'd expect to pay in a record store, and got a personal e-mail thanking me for my generosity. That, to me, is very telling; it indicates that without threats of retribution and propaganda reinforcing the idea that people who don't pay for music are bad, the commonly agreed value of an album drops drastically, even in the view of the artist.