[bvw]

That is a thought provoking post. It is the access to those little, rare, niche-type songs that people really like the swappers for. Yet the Biz can't economically produce them in its massive channel biz models.

It is that uniqueness that keeps people long-term as music lovers, being as it is something an individual can more hold as his own. Without such personality music buyers drop out of the market after so long. The Biz's artist marketing targets the go-along, part of the group, lemming phase of music appreciation. That phase has to pass as a person gets older and more sure of himself, becomes a full adult individual.

Yet the Biz leaves it behind for the sake of the easy bucks in high-volume channels.

[tdadams]

Why don't you guys just admit what you really want is for the record companies to just throw up their hands and say, "Fine, take all the free music you want."

Geesh, all this populist claptrap makes me ill. Why don't you just join the Al Gore for president campaign and get him to include "Big Music" in his anti-capitalist crusade.

And please, I dare say not a single one of you gives a rats @$$ about exploited artists. It's simply a means to demogogue the record labels and delegitimize their right to make a profit.