Impoverished Music Stars Forced to Download Their Own Music

Tacked on to an announcement about Apple's new iPod and cell phone with iTunes comes the report that Madonna would be making her music legally available for download for the first time:

All of the singers' songs will be offered through the iTunes library. ''I got tired of not being able to download my own music,'' Madonna said.

What an odd thing to say...Is she just insanely self-absorbed, endlessly searching the internet for her own music, or do artists rarely actually own copies of their own music? Wouldn't the record company give her a CD if she wanted one?