Appetite for Self-Destruction

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
2008 was another bleak year for record labels, but their problems began years earlier. On today's show: A look at the secret deals, corporate backbiting and poor decision making that led to the decline of the record industry. Also: Tenor saxophonist Tim Ries joins us to talk about interpreting the Rolling Stones in the Jazz idiom and performs live.

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