Will Big Music Kill Music? Come On…!

“Some people are able to draw neat arguments around the consolidation of the music industry and its threat to music. I wish I could. I understand it in a practical sense. But then I succumb to the music and let it colour the whole argument, and I wonder if there isn’t another picture some might be missing. I see the music industry as one thing, and then I see Trenchtown rude boys, or Monterey hippies, or late-eighties ravers — pick your movement. These were people so committed to their music, they couldn’t have cared less what the industry happened to be dictating at the moment. Going against dictates was the whole idea.”