working, travelling on business, and having lots of fun last weekend with some out of town guests, it seems that the music industry is finally starting to implode. High-profile columnist Steven Levy has weighed in with “The Customer is Always Wrong” in Newsweek, and a bunch of stars of yesteryear held a big show to protest record company contracts. What was the old line? You shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth? Well, if the gift horse is massive direct distribution via Napster you probably shouldn’t. Maybe the stuff that Albini and Love started hammering on a while back is finally going to stick.
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