The thing I really regret the most about Kurt Cobain dying is that he was only a couple of years away from the Internet taking off. If any musician would have

The thing I really regret the most about Kurt Cobain dying is that he was only a couple of years away from the Internet taking off. If any musician would have taken the Internet and ran with it, I truly believe it would have been him. He really didn't give a rat's ass about the music industry, and I think he probably would have started releasing music for free and circumvented the record labels. And since he was the biggest star at the time, circa 1994/1995, in typical fashion, other bands would have copied him and it would have changed things forever. I really do believe he would have been the catalyst for change in the music industry. Instead, we had Metallica that wanted to keep the status quo, and instead of having a music revolution, we had an emboldened RIAA suing people for hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading MP3s. My understanding, but far from any form of authority on the subject, is that the artists get very little from music sales these days, and most of their money comes from touring, which is why ticket prices are so high these days. I would understand a Red Hat-like model where the artists distribute their music for free, but charge a lot for performances, this would be fair. But since we're paying $1/song, and the artists aren't getting much of that, what it means is that everyone is getting screwed except for the middleman, ie. the record label.