the way things are going we are only going to get more and more opportunities to acquire and share the music we love at a price WE decide is good value.

How do you figure that? You might get more from the megastars, who can afford to give it away and recoup the costs elsewhere. Where folk music is concerned, most musicians don't expect huge sales or to make huge profits from albums, but they do hope to recover their costs. If they can't even do that, for how much longer do you thing they will be prepared to go on making them? Or if they do continue, why should they spend money on a properly engineered recording rather than doing it themselves, without proper recording equipment and more importantly recording expertise?

The way things are going you'll get less music. What you can get may be cheaper, but there will be less of it and it will be of poorer audio quality.