Why Vinyl Melted

The NY Times’s Dwight Garner reviews Steve Knopper’s Appetite For Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age here. Says Mr. Garner, “Mr. Knopper, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, provides a wide-angled, morally complicated view of the current state of the music business. He doesn’t let those rippers and burners among us — that is, those who download digital songs without paying for them, and you know who you are — entirely off the hook. But he suggests that with even a little foresight, record companies could have adapted to the Internet’s brutish and quizzical new realities and thrived.”