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Can this really be a discussion? People don't feel guilty at all for listening to songs on the radio, but when radio was getting started the record industry tried to shut that down too. Then when they realized they couldn't they suddenly noticed that radio play promoted the sales of recordings rather than discouraged it.
Perhaps things are a little different in a world where anyone can create their own "albums" from downloaded tracks, but I honestly think if the record labels were interested in creating interesting hi-fidelity artefacts that people wouldn't find an MP3 as a reasonable alternative. The problem is, the labels are much more interested in producing product that is so disposable that nobody really thinks of it as particularly valuable.
The dinosaurs are dying and rumbling about the mammals stealing their eggs. Poor dinosaurs.
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