SALON SAYS THE MUSIC BIZ IS STILL SCREWED

Every "sea change" in the entertainment world...is NAUSEATING.

Any way you look at it, it comes back to the old one-two:

1) There's so much free diversion...people don't need to buy a CD, a DVD or books.

2) For those who actually WANT to OWN this stuff, Piracy makes it easy to slice deeper into the profits.

Put the two problems together and you have...YouTube. I hear it all the time: "Why should I buy music? Any time I want, I just go to YouTube and there's all my favorite songs!" Add Spotify and Pandora and other free services.

Some years ago, assholes like "Seniormole" were extolling Spotify as the future for recording artists. Forget about CDs. Toss your music on Spotify where we can all listen to it as much as we want for free, like radio. Except...Spotify pays next to nothing.

All through the past miserable decade, the Zinfucks, The Dementeds, Christer the Blister, and shit-brains with devil names like Mephisto...all knew better than industry insiders. "You idiots, you don't get it. WE know what's best. WE are having fun. WE are the new stars with our blogs! WE have fans who like us giving away your music. SO...find a new paradigm. And don't forget that what we're doing HELPS you."

Right. Every step of the descent to hell, know-it-all jackasses in Sweden, Holland and other dumbass locations, knew more than anyone. Jerks who never met a rock star, never made an album, had no idea how the industry works...were convinced that giving away entire albums on blogs and in forums was a GOOD THING. Pirate Bay: a GOOD THING. And fuckin' Spotify...THAT'S THE FUTURE! YOU WAIT AND SEE!

That's why most of our favorite artists aren't recording anymore. Why there are so few break-out new stars. Why this past month has seen the release of...Lana Del Rey and Sam Smith...and that's about it. Talk about shit. And constipation. Remember when every week there were new releases at the store?

Over at SALON, they're telling us what we already know, but it's nice that at least they're saying it publicly. I was SO FUCKING SICK of hearing the Zinfucks, et al, prattling their ignorance. They have been proven to be a bunch of clueless cunts. But it's too late. It's too late. Here are some chunks from SALON...