> "Music stores used to be magical places offering wide variety. Today the
> three largest music retailers are Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Target. In those
> stores 
> shelf space is limited, making it harder for new artists to emerge. Even
> established artists are troubled by stores using music as a loss leader.
> Smaller, 
> more personalized record stores are closing all over the country -- some
> because 
> of rampant P2P piracy but many others because of competition from department
> stores that traditionally have no connection whatsoever with artists."
> 
> Interesting words coming from the mouth of a man whose band offered a Best
> Buy EXCLUSIVE, effectively edging out those "smaller, more personalized record
> stores". Don Henley's entire argument collapses like a house of cards because
> of this, sadly... he's lured by money just as much as the labels he's
> complaining about. --Jason
    

Two words:

Irving Azoff

But those guys approved everything he sent up for them, as a manager....so
them, along w/ the Rolling Stones, have *no* business or credibility talking
to any music fans about what ails the music industry until they, using the
power and influence they have as artists in demand, do something useful to
the process.

Btw, Not Lame factoid:   He was a neighbor of mine(along w/ Hunter S.
Thompson) in Aspen, Colorado---the birthplace of Not Lame, in lovely Woody
Creek, CO.   (my wife and I lived in squalor, literally, next them.....very
funny, actually).

Bruce
@ Not Lame