Lesenswerter Artikel über den Zustand der Musikindustrie im Economist („From major to minor„), und der beginnt so:

IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. „That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,“ says a person who was there.

Richtig tragikomisch wird die Geschichte durch die jüngste Ankündigung von EMI, dass nun ebendiese Top-Manager jede Verpflichtung einer neuen Band absegnen müssen.

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