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Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry

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Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry

DESPITE the major record labels’ best efforts to kill it, the single, according to recent reports, is back. Sort of.

You’ll still have a hard time finding vinyl 45s or their modern counterpart, CD singles, in record stores. For that matter, you’ll have a tough time finding record stores. Today’s single is an individual track downloaded online from legal sites like iTunes or eMusic, or the multiple illegal sites that cater to less scrupulous music lovers. The album, or collection of songs — the de facto way to buy pop music for the last 40 years — is suddenly looking old-fashioned.

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BILLY BRAGG WINS VS. MYSPACE TOA

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“I am very pleased to see that MySpace has changed their terms of agreement from a declaration of their rights into a declaration of our rights as artists, making it clear that, as creators, we retain ownership of our material. Having been adopted by the biggest social networking site on the block, I hope their recognition of the right of the artist to be sole
exploiter of their own material now becomes an industry standard because there is much more at stake here than just the terms and conditions of a website.”

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