You are putting people off of what could have spawned into some interesting developments as an artist. Your music has ALL been done before by the best why dont you give up?

As for “he valued money more than his work,” I’d like to know exactly what you think he works for. A man’s gotta eat, gotta pay the rent, and it’s easy for some college kid with no bills to sit in his dorm room and say how we ought to put our work before money. But we work *for* money, that we might work more. Making money means producing more music, meaning more work and the ability to make more money, and on and on. There’s nothing immoral about making money–however, money is supposed to be a product of a vocation, not an object of devotion as it has become for so many.

The entire music industry is in upheaval, and it should be, because it’s operated in a completely ridiculous way that puts both the customer and the producer near the bottom of its priority list. I won’t write the twenty page paper on why that I could here, but suffice it to say, it won’t necessarily be piracy that brings down the old-school music industry, but more generally the ability in the modern world for everybody and their brother to produce and distribute their own works without having to go through one of the big or even small labels. Labels offer a lot of advantages, but they’re becoming more dead weight than anything in a world that wants both mass consumption and creativity. In the future I think labels will be more focused around producing live acts than producing recordings.