The Major Labels Helped Dig Their Own Grave? (Score 1)

The Music Business, at least in the context of the major labels, has always been centered around the idea that what really matters, what really rakes in the cash for them, is the single. Because of the lack of focus on artist development and the marginal attention that things like musicianship and quality songwriting get, "artists" keep cranking out albums with only one or two songs of note. Is it any wonder then that the masses who are sick and tired of paying $18 in the jaded hope that they might get more music of value than what they hear on the radio would then utilize a medium like MP3 that affords them the opportunity to have the one song they love and leave the rest of the dreck behind?... Especially among an increasingly monetary- and technology-savvy youth?

I can't help but think that in some sense the labels have helped dig their own grave on this one. And I for one am more than happy to watch them jump in.