Buried in a "music-industry-screwed" roundup in the Economist is this nugget: An allegation that music label EMI was spending $400,000 a year on party favors (booze, drugs, women, whatever) for its talent.
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Hmmm...nearly Enron-league...
ReplyDeleteBut can you blame them? I mean, they're on the Titanic and someone's struck up the band...It's the music business, the moribund, dinosaur trodding toward extinction...