{"id":692,"date":"2004-02-18T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2018-08-10T06:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:19:38","slug":"692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/692\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s <i>Washington Post<\/i>, deep thinker <strike>John Handey<\/strike> <strike>Doug Henning<\/strike> <b>Don Henley<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A46669-2004Feb16.html\" target=\"new\">uncaps his fountain pen<\/a> to decry the state of the music industry today.<\/p>\n<p>To recap his wisdom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The big corporations are squeezing out the small labels.\n<li>The big corporations are putting out crappy music because&#8230;..\n<li>Music executives don&#8217;t sign new artists that audiences really want because&#8230;.\n<li>The big retailers are squeezing out the small record shops by stocking crappy music at high prices, but too low for small record shops to make a <strike>profit<\/strike> meaningful contribution.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, I am not really sure what his wisdom is, much like he surely doesn&#8217;t understand how capitalism works.  What the audience wants, someone will sell them, and the music industry is evolving beyond the traditional channels.<\/p>\n<p>Others weigh in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will Collier on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodkapundit.com\/archives\/005319.php#005319\" target=\"new\">VodkaPundit<\/a> (lots of posts&#8211;start here and scroll down).\n<li>James Joyner on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/005114.html\" target=\"new\">Outside the Beltway<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Washington Post, deep thinker John Handey Doug Henning Don Henley uncaps his fountain pen to decry the state of the music industry today. To recap his wisdom: The big corporations are squeezing out the small labels. The big corporations are putting out crappy music because&#8230;.. Music executives don&#8217;t sign new artists that audiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22524,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/22524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}