I hate to say it, but not everyone thinks like you. Imagine all the college students out there who download music. The vast majority do not care about 128 bitrates. They especially don't care on their 15 watt dorm room computer speakers.

What this is is a way for you to guiltlessly download presumably well done songs at high speeds. I assume the connection to these downloads will be faster than the usual P2P. I also think that despite the 128kbps, you will still get better quality rips than the average P2P network will offer, presumably free of clicks and pops and bad info.

Basically, the quality of 128kbps MP3s in this method should be better than the 128kbps MP3s from most P2P.

Of course, if this catches on well, we should presumably have all those lovely new MP3s on our free P2P programs