Maybe that's their underlying goal, but that underlying goal doesn't matter to the point I was making. By putting up music for download that the publishers are currently actively selling the Internet Archive basically handed the music publishers a loaded gun.
It's just like the "emergency library" debacle, the publishers were fine with turning a blind eye to the Archive violating their copyrights as long as the Internet Archive didn't try doing anything that would significantly hurt their sales. They could have sued them earlier but it wasn't a legal slam dunk until the Internet Archive pulled that stupid stunt.