This paper studies the effects of a record company adopting the different pricing strategies to virtual music goods on the company's profit, consumer's surplus and social welfare. We show that (1) after a record company charging for virtual music goods, a part of users of virtual music goods is unwilling to pay the goods; this does not influence the users who use the entity music goods, as a result the consumer's surplus falls. Because the effect of decreasing the consumer's surplus is greater than that of the increasing profit of the company, social welfare decreases. Therefore, the charging strategy is economic inefficiency. (2) the company charging for virtual music goods is profitable; unfortunately, this pricing strategy deteriorates to social welfare.