Kot, Greg. <br/><br/>
Ripped :  how the wired generation revolutionized music / 
Greg Kot. 
 - 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. 
 - New York :  Scribner,  2010. 
 - xi, 268 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index.  "Now with a new afterword"--Cover. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : chaos and transformation -- Consolidated to death -- Payola blues -- Napster vs. Metallica -- Customers or criminals? -- Is Prince nuts? -- "Do not insult Death Cab" -- Conor Oberst : "He was thirteen and kicking our asses" -- "Screw the record companies, screw MTV, just go out and play" -- Everyone's a critic -- Arcade Fire : chocolate fountains everywhere -- Innovation out of necessity -- Girl Talk's illegal art -- Future shock from wham city -- "George Bush doesn't like Black people" -- A new boss, same as the old boss -- Steve Jobs and the iPod "burglary kit" -- "The feedback loop of creativity" -- "I love picking fights" -- "It's up to you" -- "Steal, steal, and steal some more". 
<br/><br/> "Ripped" tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge. In this new world, bands aren't just musicmakers but self-contained multimedia businesses; and fans aren't just consumers but distributors and even collaborators. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416547310 (pbk.) 1416547312 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010564835 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music--Computer network resources.<br/>Music trade--Computer network resources.<br/>Music and the Internet.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML74.7  / .K68 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>780285/46