Salon.com Technology | I have seen the future of music and its name is iTunes

"Hunter S. Thompson never actually said that 'the music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.' The quip, from Thompson's 1988 'Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s' ,was in fact meant to describe the TV business."