Blog: NPR Music: Monitor Mix

Maybe this is the easiest way to make sure your cash goes straight to the person who made it. ( Getty Images, Lew Robertson ) Last week, Eliot Van Buskirk, columnist and blogger at Wired and Jay Sweet, Paste magaznie's Editor At Large, got together in a chat room (so '90s!) to talk about paying for music now. After a technological stumble, involving the revelation of exactly 2 embarrassing AIM names, they proceeded to drop bombs on the majors ( They [...]