>>26959
I contacted "BMI" and am engaged in a dialogue with them, I'll report my findings back here. The prices aren't as unreasonable as I thought, with a minimum fee that is less than a dollar a month for legal access to the music of hundreds of thousands of artists at the minimum level, and then 1.75% of gross revenue related afterwards. However, I think the representative gave me the wrong license so I'll have to pick her brain some more to get to the bottom of it.
I might just make my own music. Easier said than done, but I don't think having licensed music would likely affect my sales positively anyway, as long as whatever I'm able to do isn't repugnant.