Everything that's wrong with the music industry....

In an article on the New York Post, we learn that the music industry really doesn't care about the people who create the music.

In short: the RIAA has been filing dozens of music piracy lawsuits, targeting guilty and innocent alike. Suing for hundreds of thousands of dollars, they literally ruin people's lives over sharing a couple of CD's worth of music.

So what do they do with all this money? They give it to the artists who were pirated, right? Wrong.

"What's more, these sources said that after the labels recouped their legal expenses, there wasn't much left to pass along to the artists.", the article says.

So, in this new world, does this mean that only the lawyers win?

Increasingly, record companies are becoming an anachronism in today's society, and it's becoming more and more apparent that the RIAA doesn't have the musician's best interests at heart. It's time to end the music business as we know it. Give the artists control over their own works and let them sell through places like iTunes and Amazon.

A song for you

I'm working on a project. I'm calling it "A Soundtrack In Search of a Game". Here's a sample: Night Visions

The song was composed on Cakewalk Sonar, and played entirely on a Roland MT-32, the classic synth for video game music.