21 year old going to Everything she knew about music didn’t come from being a fan; it came from what she’d read in her market research reports.
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Joey deVilla, describing a meeting he had with a record exec back in 1996.
I think this perfectly sums up why the record industry is hurting so badly: it’s no longer run by music fans, it’s run by business people.
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