Prostituting Music.

Do you know what bothers me about the music industry? The fact that it’s an industry.

I said in a much earlier post that I believe musicians to be the master race. Music is the gift to the gods, or the universe, or the higher consciousness, or whatever you want to call it. And that’s how it’s been treated though thousands of years of bards, minstrels and the music of the common people. Yet in a mere three hundred years of hedonistic patronage and the entrepreneurial spirit, we’ve turned it into a commodity and subjected it to the dynamics of an industry. And what sort of people run industries? Men who think that life is all about indoor swimming pools and BMWs.

The one advantage of it being an industry is that a greater choice of music is made available to a greater number of people. Good, then let it be a non profit-making industry.