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10/26/2007: "Given a choice, people prefer real culture"

The classical music industry, struggling prior to 2000, is now on a huge rebound due largely to the Internet. Classical music labels are seeing record sales this year, now that the Internet allows music buyers access to their complete libraries of music, which would be completely impractical in a brick-and-mortar store. Classical music benefits more from the "long tail" since not only are there centuries of music from which to draw -- each piece is likely to have multiple recordings, resulting in a vast catalog.

[ Ordinary people can appreciate good music, too. The music industry has focused for so long on destroying culture so it can sell you junk that it forgot that people have brains. ]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_ross