And one more little bit. You used to buy fabulous corduroy pants in all sorts of colors made by Hart Shaffner and Marx. This is going back 20 years. You could buy them at the local department store when it was still local. They had the label USA and I assume the fabric as well as the tailoring was from the USA. Today I saw on a website (not our own) where Paul Winston said good corduroy fabric came only from abroad. Oconnels and Press still offer made in USA pants. Press says the fabric comes from Italy. The prices are higher but I think I want the navy and bottle green pants in my expanded size. 150 bucks or so. I think worth it.

I note that the internet still lives.

The internet has not killed music, it has challenged and perhaps killed off the rock star, which is no bad thing. The file sharing wars were infact a liberation, but as Chet Baker sang "but not for me". As I'm an audiophile who demands the best, most spacious sound possible and you only get that with vinyl and Japanese 24bit remastered CD's, DVD-Audio or the defunkt SACD's.

There's an interesting book by a music journalist Mark Coleman, "Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines an Money".  This goes into all the format wars from cylinders vs records to 78rpms vs 33.1/3rpms and even attempts to ban all recorded music as it was perceived as killing off the livelihood of professional musicians.

In the end, I find the internet more rewarding than playing Diplomacy by post, watching Michael Palin's nice little adventure and the readers wives section of Fiesta.

The internet has destroyed the way musicians make money. It has destroyed music.
      I really enjoy filmnoirbuffs essays. I would pay money to read them. He laughed about being a published author. But the real distinction (to authors) is whether you are a paid author.  But I suspect he makes enough money he doesn't care if he is a paid author. The internet will be a failed business model. People will not create content unless they are rewarded.
     And here is a little prediction: In the next three years the internet will shut down for a week or two because of a terrorist like attack. It is an obvious soft underbelly.

File sharing is not liberation. It is the theft of intellectual property. anyone who does it is a criminal. The people who do it are teenagers who don't have any money.  They used to knock over the corner convenience store. Now they knock over western culture. In a real sense they are linked to Al Quaida.

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The idea of 'the music business' is a curiously 20th Century phenomenon.

There is no reason why it should logically exist: as Tony says non-creative parasites exploiting the naivete of artists. Have you ever seen a music publishing contract?