Music’s Goth Phase

An article in Portfolio by Kevin Maney describes the current music industry as “This flurry of experiments is painful but probably necessary, like a teenager’s goth phase. The endgame is clear, however. Sometime in the next decade, ‘free music’ will win. Artists will give away recorded music and consider it promotional, just like music videos. All of the revenue in music will be generated in other ways.”

Read the whole thing here.