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I see the music industry turning more and more towards both amateurism and boutique labels that also do club nights and other spin offs to make their money as the barriers to entry and profit margin continue to fall (although the big drop has already happened).
I don't see the big indies going anywhere as they are pretty lean already and already have the infrastructure needed to do larger scale promotion of acts.
I don't see the majors fully collapsing either, but laying off a significant amount of their workforce and more tightly integrating their company with massive popular shows like X-factor and Pop Idol...

"Perxplexed" really is your word of the day, huh!

I do know what you mean though. I've surrounded myself through much of school and all of uni with music loving (read:obsessed) friends, but once I'm in a situation where I'm just put with other people it always amazes me how little most of them care about what music they hear and how much they enjoy X-factor. Nothing wrong with that position at all as you said, but I always forget I'm a long way from being in the majority.

Whenever someone asks "So what music are you into?"

I hate this question more than any other. Basically none of the answers I give are going to arouse more than a blank look of total bafflement in almost every normal person I know, so I tend to try and avoid it as best I can.

Having said that, here's one that's worse: "Oh, you run a record label? Which bands do you release?" Given that even die-hard music obsessives are unlikely to have heard of us, a random normal person is never going to know any of our bands at all, and they always seem a little disappointed when that proves to be the case. Personally, I think it makes them inferior people, but the fuckers rarely seem to see it that way!