Jim Carroll of the Irish Times spoke about Record Store Day to me on radio in Dublin last night. He wrote recently on his Irish Times blog that “Like the record industry, the record stores have to realise that their past glory days are over and will not return”. If you'd like to hear Jim and I chew over the record store fat, click on this link:
http://artbeatdublincityfm.podomatic.com/entry/2010-04-15T01_58_24-07_00

Good news for our ears (but not Muzak's employees). It seems the Muzak corporation responsible for many a panpipe hit is in trouble. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/11/globalrecession-useconomi...