response 69 of 71:

Jan 23 21:41 UTC 2002

  Wow..  Even using the higher sales figures (2 million copies) 
  that's still $24.50 she's receiving per CD she actually sold.
  To put it another way, if EMI sells half a billion records this
  year, they'll essentially have to slap a ten cent Mariah Carey
  tax on every one of them.

  Better get shopping kids, the record companies are in trouble
  and they need your help!

response 71 of 71:

Feb 22 23:40 UTC 2002

Distribution North America (DNA), which I believe to have been the 
leading distributor of indie rock CDs, has gone bankrupt.  
Ugh.  When the leading indie distributors went *boom* ten years ago,
some stuff went out of print, and some labels went away because they
couldn't absorb the loss of income they were due from the distributor.
Here's a story from the MSU State News:
 
http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=8889