This will help you understand why the music biz does what it does

Click through these slides, kiddo.

Many of you are under the impression that the music industry is unique, that the artistic component or the celebrity quotient somehow transcends normal business interaction.

You're dead wrong.

The music industry's past 20 years have been utterly predictable and followed the classic model described by every MBA program.

This guy's book on strategy has long been the gold standard. This guy's comments are also revealing.

This is no longer a boutique little adventure for a bunch of bohemian, hedonists who have yet to figure out how grow up. The industry is a global enterprise, and even without the spector of shareholders as a boogieman, demands modern, risk averse corporate behavior. If you don't like it what it offers, go downward to the hundreds of indie labels where innovation is actually possible.