the catalog.

From the Future of Music Coalition newsletter comes the most point blank statement about the change in how we think about music and its commodity status:

In other words, the music industry is moving rapidly away from selling albums to monetizing the value of accessing and interacting with entire catalogs of music. As the music industry changes, we need a copyright system that compensates all the members of the creative team for their work.

the whole language of listening is changing, it seems. accessing instead of buying or owning, curating instead of DJing, the end of scarcity (which is something that I had always had fantasies about, living with a record collector nerd who refused to even let me listen to his records because I didn't put them back properly and quickly enough) meaning a whole different relationship to 'discovery.'

On an entirely different note, the reason that Madonna song "I Love New York" sucks isn't the lyrics or the very haughty concept, it's the timpani rolls, how silly are they? it sounds like some ill-concieved crossover remix.

And in the weird world of celebrity crossovers, here's Mark E. Smith reads the soccer scores