Check out this essay by Don Henley of the Eagles, in the Washington Post today. They’re Killing the Music. I don’t know that I can agree with Mr. Henley’s guarded hope that artists can wrest back some control of the music industry. I think the problem, which he terms systemic, has roots that run well outside music. Western culture, to the limited extent it ever existed in the US, is imploding like a pitiful souffle.