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Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise
Supplying yet more evidence, if more were needed, of the dire straits the music business increasingly finds itself in — reader cphilo sends us a NYTimes article about the death of the album as the mainstay of profit, and the record labels' struggle to adopt to the new realities. The article notes the trend of the labels signing artists for a single song, maybe two, and a ring tone.
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Please, don't insult music by calling Tom Waits a "musician." The man sounds like a gravel truck in need of maintenance, his lyrics are about as sophisticated as nursery rhymes, and the backing sounds aren't worthy of any note whatsoever.
There are plenty of real blues artists. Don't push pretenders.
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