[ClearCase_guy]

I’m so glad those days are behind us!!

[a fool in paradise]

Payola remains (and it did not begin with rock and roll or doo wop) but organized crime seems to be on the wane in the music industry (outside of rap labels) at least since the 1980s.

However, the music industry's influence on our nation's laws is bigger than ever before. And their criminal enterprises (like price fixing the industry) largely go unprosecuted. Not at much violent enterprise or coercion as there once way.

Don't even get started with the monolithic ticket handling fee racket.