I might be a late-comer to this particular blog, but I can't get enough of it. In fact, I found it here when someone linked to it (The Lefsetz Letter).
Read the last few entries if you haven't yet, is this guy on target or what?
Here, he takes on the WalMart issues:
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/05/13/the-ticket-comes-with-the-album
It's not really off topic as he talks about older acts and the new music paradigm.[/url]