a nice article on how the music biz works, (or doesn't)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/arts/music/27beat.html?_r=1&ref=music

There are a hundred examples just like this. To be fair, sometimes the artist is also sometimes at fault, (Springsteen is notorious for puttting out worse product than his bootleggers do).



(Thanks for the link, Erik!)