[Gordon Airporte]

wrote:

Don't you guys think there should be a move towards something better
than the current mp3 technology? I wouldn't mind downloading bigger
files, like say 30 megabytes per song or something like that.

The technology is already here - you want FLAC files. FLAC seems to be
the most popular of several lossless audio compression formats.
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
People who trade live concerts tend to use Shorten (.shn) files instead.