The ignorant music industry, part 756

I was pleased to get another email read out on radio 5 today, during a discussion about mp3. This is it:

"noone is mentioning that the biggest album by a mile in the last couple of weeks is Dangermouse The Grey Album - an embarrassment for the industry as it uses all the white album [beatles] and all the black album [jayz] to produce a fantastic new mix - a million downloads in one day and very illegal music as its totally unliscenesed [sic]....

where does that leave the slow monolithic music industry?"

The really shocking thing was that most people on the discussion panel were totally unaware of the album. These were industry professionals, whose business it is surely to know such things. Considering that the Grey Album was featured in a high profile article in NME [who have a positive attitude to all things digital], you'd think they would have heard of it. But no, the biggest piece of music news to happen this year was a total mystery to them. The discussion was about the death of the msuic industry because of mp3 and p2p, but as far as I could see, the death of the music industry will be because of arrogant, complacent willful ignorance and plain disinterest. Its as if they think their jobs and lifestyle are immune from the world, that they are a hallowed breed. But they are not, quite the opposite. Noone with any brains has worked in the music industry for, ooh, a decade at least. Good riddance I say....