There always has been, and always will be, a music 'industry'. The article Josepp quotes is interesting - but I seem to recall my father saying some of those things 50 years ago.

If the 'industry' is dying, then let it die, and three cheers. The music that interests me is the music that has always interested me and which will continue to do so: blues, jazz, ragtime, classical music, traditional tunes, music-hall, township jive, French waltzes and mazurkas, cajun 2-steps, Cape Breton fiiddling, New Orleans second line, 60s Stax stuff, Muscle Shoals, Appalachian stuff.

It's all there - and much more - wonderful music in a host of different disguises! Who gives a flying fuck for the 'industry'? Not me, for one.