Really good article about the music business

Robin Good points to: “The Myth of The Rock Star and of the Need To Sing-up For a Major Recording Label”:

“Music” does not equal “compact disc”. Music is data. It doesn’t matter whether you burn it to a CD or rip it to an iPod or a Memory Stick or store it on your hard drive. It’s still music.

**Take a minute to internalize this concept. **

Once you get past the notion that music has to come in the form of a shiny little Frisbee that retails for $16.99 at your local MegaSuperMusicPavilion, certain other truths that once seemed self-evident begin to unravel — such as the idea that the only way to become a successful musician is by signing a recording contract with a giant corporation.” (from “Burn Down the House”)[

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Read the whole thing. It’s enlightening.

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