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Coolfer's Tips for Music Consumers
So it's coming from a US perspective, but there's some good basic advice in here, worth pondering. Have a lookee.

"Consumers often make themselves out to be victims who forced into paying outrageous prices for music that costs nothing to make. If this were a political cartoon, one of the "victim's" arms would be held behind his/her back by the music industry as the free arm pays a cashier for a stack of CDs. There's too much exaggerating going on--or ignorance.
Most music--the more mainstream music, generally--doesn't come cheap, and if you paid for it, then it wasn't too expensive, was it? (After all, we're not talking about a staples like bread, milk or flour. You don't have to buy music.) If you truly want to take steps to find better deals, it's not that difficult. I'm amazed that people will drive ten miles out of the way to save a nickel on a gallon of gas but they don't pursue ways to buy music for less money...
For every dispute over royalties and claims that a label is not acting out of good faith, there's a Courtney Love who sabotages the chances for her album's success--which is far from acting out of good faith toward her record label..."
Read it here.