“It took me longer than it should have done to work out that the internet is one giant independent record shop — thousands and thousands of cute little independent record shops, anyway — and they don’t actually charge you for the music they stock.
The MP3 blogs that stretch for miles and miles, as far as the eye can see, down that stretch of the net that isn’t reserved for pornography, are staffed by enthusiastic and likable young men and women who absolutely don’t want to rip the artists off…
It works for me. I listen, and then I buy what I like, because owning music is still important to me.”
Nick Hornby in the Guardian UK, writing about his recent love affair with mp3 blogs. (He’s releasing a novel soon, which he describes as being “in part about about how a middle-aged man devotes a large chunk of his life to keeping alive the work of a long-forgotten 80s singer-songwriter.”)
On that subject: lately we’ve been featuring a Tune of the Day. Be sure to give them all a listen!
