With Steve Jobs’ recent Thoughts On Music article mentioning that Apple would drop DRM in a minute if the record companies would buy in to it, I was wondering if people would be willing to pay more for non DRM’d music.

What if you could buy songs at tierd pricing based on compression quality and DRM preference, like this?

• DRM included and the same level of compression that you see today with online music stores = 89 cents.
• DRM included and a lower level of compression = 99 cents.
• No DRM and today’s compression = $1.09.
• No DRM and no compression $1.19.

Make up your own pricing structure instead of the numbers I made up above.
I’m not sure how I’d feel about that. I’d like having the choice, but if things got too expensive it would probably drive me back to purchasing CDs for most of my music and only using the online stores for the times when I am looking for something and have to have it right now – the “instant gratification” stuff.

I’d love to see not only the DRM dropped, but I’d also like to download everything with no, or lossless, compression.  I’d go as high as $1.09 for non-DRM, no compression music downloads, so for me it would probably all come down to price.