What do you get in piracy that you don't get in the music industry? You get far more options in the music industry. The only thing the music industry can't offer is free content. That's it, the one thing.
There are service where you pay a fix amount for all the content you want. So that's null and void.
I don't that the argument is null, services such as lovefilm do not offer very good quality, have a fairly limited catalogue and don't allow you to store the files on local media.