The musicians need to take control over their own futures again.

There’s only one type of person who makes money in the music industry. A savvy, wily, businessperson. Whether this person is a lawyer, manager, a&r person, record company executive, promoter, DJ, or the talent, as musicians are called, they all have business smarts…
Once upon a time music was a communal thing that happened when two or more people got together and wanted to celebrate, or pass the time. Now music is packaged and sold to us.

Read the above article, then read [[Courtney Love’s Speech]], then rethink the way you buy and listen to music. If you’re a musician, you should LOVE things like Napster and Gnutella.