"...and the market is everything; including whatever examples we can think up." I`m not interesting in the market when I`m thinking about the art. And the market isn`t everything - screw it. And monopolistic control - too. I`m just listening to the pop-punk band CD (two sisters, bass and guitar and one kid on the drums, 16-17 years old). They made their own CD with 6 songs - their own songs. And know what - those kids are not that bad at all... You can now say that those kids need lawyers, menagements, big companies, TV and other parts of the industry...but they don`t.