I don't have the answers. I'm just pointing out that writing, recording, and selling music doesn't entitle one to profits, and if you're in a saturated market like the music business you should expect that you're probably going to fail in your business ventures there unless you're in the top 0.1%. Perhaps the answer is for musicians to lower their expectations about making a business out of their art, because even with the system working as designed most of them already operate at a net loss.