{"id":1477,"date":"2005-06-22T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T00:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2005-06-22T00:05:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T00:05:44","slug":"bob_lefsetz_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Bob Lefsetz on the Music Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Ritholtz published <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2005\/06\/major_label_mad.html\">Bob Lefsetz&#8217;s comments<\/a> on the state of the music industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;We&#8217;re being duped.  The RIAA keeps saying it&#8217;s saving the MUSIC when really all its label members are interested in is saving THEMSELVES!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s out of control.  Irrelevant of the Grokster decision.  These billion dollar companies with their high-priced lobbyists have infected the media and the minds of the public to the detriment of ART!  What&#8217;s worse, they&#8217;ve convinced the musicians signed to their labels of the validity of their position, which is equivalent to slaves standing up for plantation owners.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know about you, but I believe in MUSIC, not LABELS!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Ritholtz published Bob Lefsetz&#8217;s comments on the state of the music industry: &#8220;We&#8217;re being duped. The RIAA keeps saying it&#8217;s saving the MUSIC when really all its label members are interested in is saving THEMSELVES! It&#8217;s out of control. Irrelevant of the Grokster decision. These billion dollar companies with their high-priced lobbyists have infected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}