As far as i can work out, the costs of the digital download version are: recording - nil, manufacturing - nil, distribution - almost nothing, artist royalties (almost nothing). Hmmmm.

So that's where it has got to, a belief that it costs nothing to record a track that will be digitally downloaded, and that there are virtually no distribution costs either.

It's very good to know that music has now become so devalued by the activities of the thieves, pirates and bootleggers that everybody else in the music industry has decided to work for nothing. I was so inspired by this discovery that I thought I'd go and start recording my first album now, but it seems that nobody's told Abbey Road - the man there was quite rude in fact.