Through excellent mockery, they make a great point -- the "Big 4" in the music biz have no idea what good music really is or how to get it to people in a way they'd like.

Personally I prefer CD's, for their audio quality and it's always nice to have a permanent backup of the original in case my DAP breaks... but still, I'll not buy their music if it continues to suck as it has for the past 10 to 15 years. I buy mostly independent band CD's nowadays, so Universal can suck it.

love a good difference engine jkoke

I've finally read all the underlying pieces here. This guy is no sweet old confused grandpa. I'm not adding a lot here - we all know these guys aren't teddy bears, but he's got a lot more in common with Hesh Rabkin from The Sopranos than my Luddite grandpa. He's old school record label - muscle over knowledge, air-tight contracts, money and power over anything else.

He prides himself in not knowing not because it's what "the kids are doing" but because he wants to prove that he doesn't have to know. At the end of the day, these guys believe that the "old ways" will win out. And by that I mean the rules of the back-room game, not what kind of format we're using or what kind of distribution.

Seeing his pictures and reading his words, these RIAA lawsuits make a lot more sense. They're not meant to be part of some "consumer-producer" relationship, their the same as Hesh trying to jack up some poor 50's musician that wants out of a bad recording deal.

That Schmoo crap is way old school "negotiation" - teaching a "lesson" through some semi-enigmatic anecdote that throws the listener off their guard. He may not be able to find the intertubes, but he's no Senator Stevens. I'm glad I'm not the one crossing him.

found it!

Man hahaha
words from the deepest past! Just like Lil Abner! Haha I can't forget this detail, Lil Abner... OMG, people read that while flying a B-17 over Germany...

this guy is a fucking piece of camel shit.

Wow.

That guy makes Edison look like Robert Fulton!

"The internet is a series of tubes"

@92BuickLeSabre:

There's a simply way to explain the behavior of people like him who continue to make decisions that only deepen the proof that they have no idea what they're doing. There's a concept in psychology known as "need for power" and people high in this kind of motivation are forceful in having their ideas used even if they are the least successful ideas of all options available.

In other words, people like him are too proud and ignorant to do anything practical for their company.

All he's trying to do is fuck up Apple and itunes before they control half the music. My dad wants me to get him an ipod touch for christmas, so I think he already lost to Steve Jobs the mp3 market.

The entire old school government, I mean music industry is corrupt from the top down, BIG TIME.
Here is an eye-opening article about spending at EMI that appeared today in The Independent, UK.
[arts.independent.co.uk]

Lol, you can't help but laugh. You'd think in his day they wouldn't have audio recordings. You just hit rocks together.

I found more interesting things than music under the petticoats of young maidens...

@BigDanInTX:
such as water fowl...

@strider_mt2k: whahahaha darned good analogy, and funnier than Hee-Haw to boot!