David Byrne's theories on the music business

From Wired.com:

We'll always want to use music as part of our social fabric: to congregate at concerts and in bars, even if the sound sucks; to pass music from hand to hand (or via the Internet) as a form of social currency; to build temples where only "our kind of people" can hear music (opera houses and symphony halls); to want to know more about our favorite bards — their love lives, their clothes, their political beliefs. This betrays an eternal urge to have a larger context beyond a piece of plastic. One might say this urge is part of our genetic makeup.

A solid detailed analysis of the types of deals an emerging artist can structure for themselves, as well as a look into where all those pennies go when you buy a CD or download.

Read the whole thing here.