Marsh, Mellow.

good mantra...

Marsh
Mellow

L8R myrt...

I need to rest and try the vacation thing in the morning again...

:):(

Scapegoats:
The Music Industry's War on Tapes

by Dave Marsh

"It (the music industry) is in real peril now and if we don't do something about it, running a record company in this country will become so unprofitable that it just won't be worth taking risks with new acts. It will become stodgy, boring and dead," said Peter Scaping of the British Phonographic Institute.

Sounds like a cliché doesn't it? It is. Scaping spoke in 1978. He was talking about cassettes. This was back when the international slogan was "Home taping is killing music." The opposite was actually happening. Mix tapes probably sold almost as many records as radio airplay over the past 20 years. Today, music retailers complain much more often that the labels are killing off the cassette, which is being done openly and deliberately, than about file-sharing or even CD burning.

There are a bunch of reasons why the record industry wants to kill the cassette. Dual inventories are expensive. Get rid of cassettes, and you'd only need one kind of manufacturing facility, too. There's also the notion, I suspect, that people with their music collections on cassette might start replacing them when cassettes become hard to find.
http://www.counterpunch.org/marsh0514.html
May 2002