The music industry has been good to Pete Townshend. The Who honcho is an extremely rich guy. But for young, nascent acts? He thinks the biz is a hostile place, thanks mainly to iTunes, which "bleeds" their work dry.
That's quite an accusation from the rock deity. The BBC says his main beef is the New Music Industry's lack of "support" for new acts, which apparently need to be nurtured and were treated like bouncy grinning children in the old days: "Is there really any good reason why, just because iTunes exists in the wild west internet land of Facebook and Twitter, it can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire, like a digital Northern Rock, for its enormous commission?"
