I’ve been looking for a music industry blog written by musicians for a while now and finally stumbled upon something interesting: Sellout Central. Today’s post in particular got me thinking about the record industry’s backasswards concept of what downloadable music would do to record sales. They’ve whined extensively about how it would damage sales and destroy the effective system they put in place many decades ago. There is now evidence that record sales are on the rise.

As a matter of principle, many once-effective systems put in place decades ago have lost much of their effectiveness with the advance of various technologies. Namely, the Internet. Things that are decades old would benefit from a reevaluation anyhow.

The recent rise in record sales says nothing of a previous decline, however. For all we know, record sales could still be lower than they were before mp3s turned the music world upside down. But if – IF – sales continue on their current path, record industry giants could do nothing but smile.