I was just text-messaging with a friend about the music business.
He said “What the hell do I know?”
I replied, “What the hell do any of us know?”
I wish I could remember where I first-ever saw this cartoon. I know nothing more about than it was drawn by a cartoonist named Ron Cobb.
But I think of it often, like when ever I think of a foreign landscape (like the “new” digital music business) and how we often try to get “plugged in” with obsolete ideas and technologies. The metaphor seems apt.
If that doesn’t make the point, then there is always this reliable chestnut that is often attributed to Hunter S. Thompson:
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
Of course, that could probably be said about a lot of businesses…