More Music Madness

Regarding the previous post, it looks like the Mighty Michael Arrington of TechCrunch concurs. He wrotes:

While I’m all for the revenue sharing with artists, pleeeease, lala, get over yourself and drop the condescending, do-the-right-thing-as-defined-by-the-RIAA messaging.

Agreed.

On a related note, Ben Laurie writes about being fooled into buying the new Beth Orton (above) CD from Amazon only to find that its DRM won't let it be played on a computer though there was no warning to this effect.

commented there that I had sticker shock when looking at the same disk at Barnes & Noble this afternoon. $19.99! I haven't bought a CD in years. No wonder. (via Doc Searls)