[PoorMuttly]

Yep, here it comes. What a loss...no more coke parties at the pool for the fleets of lawyers and sycophants...helicopters, limos...what a tragic loss to us all.

I can tell you, having met some of these executives...they are sweating bullets...because they can't stop it. Typical pimps. All the money they "give" an artist to develop and record his work...the artist (one who does the actual work) has to pay back...limo rides and all. Not wanting or needing such things is their WORST nightmare.

Let freedom RING!

[Chad Fairbanks]

I can't remember the last major label album I have bought - I buy indie music, mainly because you get great music, without the 'packaging' and without the bloated price... I don't want sugar-coated mindless garbage, thank you very much. ;0)

[Darlin']

It's gonna have a tremendous rippling effect, too.

[weegee]

The execs aren't in that bad of shape. They still own all of the back catalogs of the musicians that they fleeced and that stretches back many decades.

Boxed sets, soundtrack placement, etc. will provide them with revenue for years to come. Thanks to "never" expiring copyrights (the government keeps postponing the inevitable public domain status of these works) the corporations will continue to make receipts off of songs that were forgotten long ago.