Frontline on PBS is airing a show called The Way the Music Died online on May 29, 2004. In it David Crosby talks bluntly about how the music industry has changed. He says:
“When it all started, record companies — and there were many of them, and this was a good thing — were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.