Steve Albini’s “The Problem With Music”
Today I came across this article, The Problem With Music, which was originally printed in the Baffler. The article isn’t really about the problem with music, though. It’s about the problem with the music industry. And it’s a big problem, a very worrying problem to all musicians out there, big and small. This article exposes one part of the extensive corruption that these charlatans who call themselves the ‘music industry’ have engaged in. They are not in the music industry, though; they’re just as bad as those guys with Tommy guns that claim to be in the ‘waste management’ business.
Steve Albini
The article was written by Steve Albini who, aside from his obvious flair for high-quality and inquisitive writing, is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He’s been around the music biz block enough times to be credible in what he’s saying and joins a myriad of other voices shouting the same thing: it’s time for this music industry to clean up its act. Now that it’s become so much easier to launch an independent music career, however, their power is waning and we may soon see the day when they actually have to clean up. One can hope, anyway!
Check out The Problem With Music and remember: even a good lawyer may not save your ass from these vultures, so know what you are doing and how they operate.
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