The next trend will be the realization that commercialization ruins music. There will be a movement of bands against record companies- and fans will follow, refusing to buy CD's (and go to concerts) of bands that have "Big" record company deals, and bands will in turn make thier own record companies ( like the string cheese incident did, with SCI Fidelity). This will drive the record companies (almost) out of the whole music scene, and prices of CD's will go down a dollar or two because of it.

I hope.