the music industries’ reaction to the internet will go down in the annals of bad business moves alongside ibm ceding an operating system to ms and xerox giving up its’ gui’s. worse even. while those two companies are still around if battered, the computer industry itself is pretty healthy. not so with music. not only are the labels rushing towards their collective demise but an entire industry is falling along with them, right into oblivion. not that i mind. it’s a healthy development for the culture but it’s shocking to watch nonetheless. rolling stone can take out a full page 'i told you so' ad in the times from now ‘till next years grammy’s but it won’t make a difference - heads will have to roll before this industry changes. the people running the labels apparently won’t or can’t convert to the paradigm and to top it off don’t even have a lot of smooth buds in washington anymore (with the new g.o.p. majorities) who can stand listening to them whine.
- js.
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