@terry5mag: Purged: How a failed economic theory still rules the digital music marketplace — Artist Rights Watch

[Must read takedown of the “long tail” (aka utter shite) by the erudite Terry Matthews] Unless you spent a lot of time listening to early ’00s techno-utopian babble, the Theory of the Long Tail probably means nothing to you. Yet if you live in the US or Europe and you run a digital music label, […]

@terry5mag: Purged: How a failed economic theory still rules the digital music marketplace — Artist Rights Watch