I don't know that I would call it all that close-minded (well yeah I would) as much as it was old fashioned.
Technology is making it so that RIAA and the music companies are becoming obsolete...It is why they are so hostile and so urgent and so willing to do anything to stop it (MP3s/Online music) and to scare people.
Sure it is..
There's a means to distribute books, music, products and nearly everything else you wish right at your fingertips.. Just use the internet.
So, I don't see what's so bad about the "big, bad RIAA boogeyman"
I could start a band tomorrow and bypass them completely.