If I ran the American music industry... (PART ONE) I would replace record stores with tables, chairs and a fat pipe to the Internet... Music stores bore me. Full of CDs virtually unrelated to each other side-by-side. This isn't a new issue, but at least before vinyl died, leafing through the stacks of creative album became some ritualistic creative journey. Websites now are the ever-changing visual statement of a musician's art. I digress... Although I miss that dusty "album cover journey", I've personally moved on and am indifferent that the CD won against the vinyl record. Hello data. I suspect, very soon, fewer fully packaged CDs will be sold. Data will win. Mp3s, mp4, or whatever "i-Name" the engineers and marketers come up with data will win. Imagine now, a music store with every artist, every album, every song, every version or remix always in stock. We're almost there. Assuming, in the near future we share an ubiquitous wireless connection... why would we need a physical record store? Except for the physical products we must touch immediately, we don't. However, we as humans congregate. The ultimate "P2P app" is conversation. A NIGHT AT THE PUB. If I were in charge... next Wednesday night at the pub, when your best friend says you've gotta hear this song by "some obscure goth band" from Topeka whose father roadied for Frank Zappa in the '70s ... you could do just that. Thirty seconds later, the fat Internet pipe at the pub allows you to download your buddy's recommendation directly to your iPod. Costs you a buck. No biggie... and you'll have that song in data format.... forever. Or trash it if it sucks, and as we know your desktop trashcan adds nothing to the landfill in your backyard. ON THE LAKE. You're with your buddies again out on the lake. You're partying, skiiing, having a great time... everyone wants to hear David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" ... your vinyl LP has been scratched up for years... you've been meaning to buy it anyway... you can, you do. It is good. We still need a new and better way to enjoy album art... that tactile experience is still a void. But, when it comes to aggregating music... with an ubiquitous opportunity to purchase music, people will do it. peace- seanrox