db wrote:

To keep the quarterly growth statements growing in a shrinking market, they lay off more good people, sell more valuable real estate, massage accounting, delay payments to their artists and subcontractors, over charge their customers, and eventually will seal their own doom, leaving the door open for a newer, lower-cost renaissance of popular culture.

ie: as far as the recording industry is concerned, today is October 30, 1517, and Martin Luther is on his 94th thesis with plans to borrow a hammer in Wittenberg tomorrow?

(Lisa Simpson and her biosphere: "Look! I made Luthrans!"}

Kelly