I would actually counter that it's not the music industry that believes it's going the way of the dodo. I'm in the music industry. Have been for almost 15 years now and have never worried for one second about my career. I'm a musician though.
The people who are rightly worrying that their jobs are in peril are the suits (though often dressed in Tshirts and ballcaps) who bring less and less value in an age where experiments like Louis C.K.'s are a widely publicized and self-produced success. Disruption at it's finest and most liberating.
You're basically right, I just want to reinforce that there are lots of us modern music industry types who couldn't be happier about "the situation".
As a side note, I wonder how someone could plot the frequency of usage of auto-tune in the studio with record sales.
The people who are rightly worrying that their jobs are in peril are the suits (though often dressed in Tshirts and ballcaps) who bring less and less value in an age where experiments like Louis C.K.'s are a widely publicized and self-produced success. Disruption at it's finest and most liberating.
You're basically right, I just want to reinforce that there are lots of us modern music industry types who couldn't be happier about "the situation".
As a side note, I wonder how someone could plot the frequency of usage of auto-tune in the studio with record sales.