Problem solved

I was reading an article at lunchtime, about the decline in music sales and all this stuff between the PRS and YouTube. Usual story - the record industry (which only exists because the mechanics of distributing music on a mass scale used to be incredibly expensive) having a wee moan that the internet is destroying music, suppressing new talent, et cetera, et cetera.

It kind of went in one ear and out the other, until I found myself reviewing the top 40 selling tracks last year, trying to find four contemporary tunes for a job I'm working on. No wonder nobody buys their music any more - it's a miserable pile of old pish.

Record industry: your problem is not broadband-enabled teenagers copying music (which we all used to do in equal volume with our cassette recorders), your problem is an inferior product. Make something worth buying and we'll buy it.