Wired and Ready To Rock

The September issue of Wired spins the whole file-sharing-killed-the-music-industry yarn into a beautiful, optimistic sweater of artistic renewal.

Leave it to a magazine built on the shiny rainbowed skin of the dot-com bubble to call the music-industry collapse good news. But, we have to admit, they’re pretty convincing.

Albums are no longer confined to 13 songs with a single release date and a tidy little album cover. Instead — between leaked songs, mashups and YouTube parodies — an album becomes a “long shelf of songs and products, each carrying its own release date, distribution path, and price tag.

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