The Music Establishment: "Victims of self-inflicted wounds"

The Record Industry should also make buggy whips!
Ice Weasel at The News Blog

The NYT's Spinning Into Oblivion is yet another crack at the
music industry (an industry which deserves more than a few "cracks").
However, written by two independent retailers, it's only part of the story
and, it's not all that much of expose, more of a mea culpa.

I'll add some bits from that piece here as way of an introduction
into a larger point.

"when we opened an independent CD shop on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan in 1993. At the time, we figured that as far as business
ventures went, ours was relatively safe. People would always go to
stores to buy music."

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