A short propsal for ignoring the recording industry
The day after I wrote about Apple's new music file selling endeavor, which seems to be doing gangbusters for them I heard a piece on NPR which made me laugh. I have been unable to find a link to this piece. It was from the Market Report segment which is embedded in Morning Edition and comes on at 10 min to the hour. It may have been a tongue in cheek piece - no less factual for that. Noting that when an given industrial segment is not performing - has been engaging in monopolistic activities, is not producing at the true clearing rate of the demand curve; in short, has been caught up in error and inefficiency. Here a shift of resources along the production curve will occur allocating those assests to other sectors.
The recording industry can show you graphs, charts, they can show you the po' face. They can talk theft, piracy, buccaners on the high prairre seas. They can open their dark gates and let lawyers march by closed columns. In the meantime musical instrument sales and guitar stores are doing very well. The people who had put this piece together had looked at that segment of the retail market noted its health and conjectured that a guitar might be the coffee to the music industry's rigidly packaged and arbitrarily priced tea. They talked to people from the chain Guitar Center- they were happy people - they had no Hillary Rosen on retainer. I have bought things from this Guitar Center store, I bought a whatchamacalit from them, looking at my book I have determined that a whatchamacalit is more correctly called a saddle bone. Point being, music is in no danger of falling out of American culture and the "music industry" is not music, despite the din of their protestations. Learn to play piano, get a guitar, build yourself a hornpipe and make Popeye dance. Make a simple tune one time, make a more complicated tune the next. Don't stop
If I find where NPR hid that link I'll edit this to include it.
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