Here’s a great MSNBC article (how often do I say that?) about the ongoing self-inflicted demise of the music industry.

Perhaps if they’d quit their new arms race of making CDs as loud as possible (so they “stand out on the radio”), a process which destroys the sound quality, they’d get more sales. I didn’t spend lots of money on a cool stereo to have square waves and digital clipping tear up my speakers. Bloody gits, all of ‘em.