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I came across a link to this interview with They Might Be Giants on Slashdot, so most of you have probably already read it. I'm not really a huge fan of TMBG's music, but I really respect them. A couple of excerpts from one of their answers regarding their releasing digital music without DRM sums up how I wish the music industry (and entertainment industry as a whole) felt (emphasis added):
How would you eat, then?
That's my problem. Being a musician is an unreasonable idea anyway. The life expectancy of a professional career in music is five or 10 years. That would be a long run. It's not something you do because you're being sensible. We've been curiously blessed with an audience that was interested in what we're doing in a pretty sincere way. It's hard to say why we endure. I think the sad thing is that we're going to see a lot more actors making records and the whole thing is going to seem like a bad superprovincial version of rock. Popular music as its own self- contained world -- like the world our older brothers and sisters enjoyed while looking at the liner notes of whatever mid-'70s record -- is really fading out. People just don't get exposed to music in an organic way anymore. Ask the average person what songs are in the top 10 -- nobody knows what's in the top 10. You could make a pretty persuasive argument that the future of selling music is over.
If only others were devoted to sharing their music with others, having fun, and possibly being successful with it without limiting others.
