Dan Bern's New Album

So I picked it up the other day. It's called Breathe. It's good, but I like Fleeting Days, New American Language and his self-titled albums better. Someone wrote it takes time to grow on you, so I'll have to give it some more listens before my final verdict.

I decided to support my local CD store (School Kids Records) and it came to $16.04 with tax. I imported it into iTunes and will listen to it via my computer (plugged into my stereo) as I do with all my music.

The iTunes music store has it for $9.90. So I paid an extra $6.14, for which I got the following additional benefits:

• Access to the album at full CD quality (even though I import it at the same bitrate as iTMS downloads I could play the CD or import it at a better bitrate)
• The physical CD--I can play it in my car without burning it
• The CD case, art, liner notes, etc.
• Support for a local business
• Support for local government services via sales tax
• Possibly having Dan Bern collect more in royalties. I don't know. I bought him a beer once, so I feel that supplements any royalties he's collected from my purchases of his CDs...
  

Is all that worth paying 62% more for an album? Why don't I just get it on iTunes and donate a little bit of money to the local government, etc.?