I've listened to these MP3 downloads and the sound quality is crap. Although it is only about as bad as a cassette recording off a 33.3 rpm LP record. (Vinyl) I think that one of the problems that has not been dealt with is the price of a CD. When they first came on the market, CDs were very expensive to create and therefore $15 was a reasonable price to pay. Now, CDs are cheaper to produce than cassettes, but the price has not come down. I still see Folk Festival prices at $10/cassette and $15/CD. There is evidence of profiteering even in the Folk Music World. It probably makes sense to the young folks on the Internet to download a few tracks for free rather than pay $15 for a CD that has one or two good tracks on it. I remember the days when an album had one or two good songs and ten 'B' sides.(e.g. Lennon/Ono "Double Fantasy")for a total of about 30 minutes. Why don't folk musicians make a statement that takes advantage of CD technology which reflects the relative cost of modern production by providing at least 60 minutes of 'A' material and charge $10 for a CD? Aren't we supposed to be the Avant-garde?