“I hate to sound like an old man now…”

Thats too bad because you’re doing a terrific impression of one.

“…but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: ‘What happened?’ Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.”

Right. You know, the Macalope worked in a terrific independent record store while in college and he remembers those days fondly. The music, the posters, the Vans, the characters who shopped there, and the characters who worked there. He also remembers buying and getting stuck with a whole bunch of really lousy music.

Steve Jobs didn’t kill the music business. It was dying long before iTunes or the iPod came along. Even if he had, there’s a big difference between killing the music and killing . If there were ever a dog that needed to be put down it was the music .