Why don't they like have a store where you can create and design your own mix?
I was thinking about this a few times the past couple of years. If they are so worried about it, make profits off of people creating their own mix. People can walk in, download (using their computer) what songs they want (or do it online) then they can pick a design for their own CD and stuff like that. It will take about a week or so to be produced. It won't be just a boring old CD anymore. It will have a booklet (like the Now CDs) and have a tracklisting on the back.
It would be big. But the only problems is producing the CDs. Would it even work? How are CDs produced? Through a factory? And the time to do it. Would people want to do this?
Like geez, more than half of the people who download music don't buy music because more than half of the time, the CDs suck ass.
Anyways, they would have to pay for it. Like 9.99 for your own personal mix. Or .99 cents per song or something like that. A deal where if the CD is full it's only 12 bucks.