The Man Who Broke the Music Business

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Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD?

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With that headline, I thought it was going to be about Simon Cowell or the CEO of one of the 3 corporations that own the rights to all music..
- The music scene was the one single thing the UK had left
  Simon Cowell will rot in hell with a burning chicken shoved up his colon
  
  A full English is the best breakfast there is, so at least you still have that..
- Indie music is a thing
  
  I had no idea. Next you're going to tell me that indie MOVIES exist, or some such nonsense.
Link without PayWall: https://archive.is/y27A3
@ten24bytes
- The game is very very much rigged. Most concert halls for example won’t even agree to allow a band unless it’s signed with a record label. So even if you’re super popular on by giving away your music for free, the game is setup to force you into a contract.
Long read, but really interesting bit of music history
Missed opportunity for his parents to call him Danny. Then he could say "I'm getting too old for this shit".
- That line appeared in "To Live and Die in LA" in exactly the same circumstances two years before "Lethal Weapon". TLaDLA also had the first wrong way car chase that's now a staple of every action movie. It's funny how it was so influential in the industry but has so little lingering cultural impact.
  
  https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090180/
  
  I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for sharing
  
  That movies unexpected turn in the third act messed with my head.
Wasn't expecting such a long read. Definitely interesting!
- Read How Music Got Free - it's a book based about these same events.
TL;DR: It's about the warez "scene", specifically about music pre-releases. A decent read, but one you may have seen before.

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