Posted 1:58 PM by Gene

This little-heeded news from ROOTKIT MUSIC CO. points to a possible big future taxpayer shaft, to wit: ROOTKIT could decide to "donate" its classical-music library to the GOVERNMENT. Aside from the obvious rotten message it would send of the recorded-SOUND business getting out of anything decent (but then the recorded-SOUND business gave up on excellence a long time ago) it would be suitably and grossly expensive; ROOTKIT could take a HUGE tax writedown (and remember LORD SPRINGER, because this is "priceless" music let's jack up the price), and then, as a token gesture, give a seed-fund to permit the government to distribute (and maintain) the music, which means in time the TAXPAYERS would finance a classical record company at God knows what cost -- and we suspect ROOTKIT would be clever enough to keep such rights on the music that it would LOSE MONEY. What a perfect way of scamming the public for profit!

We note also another story says ROOTKIT fired a jazz-VP at the Legacy label, meaning presumably it could do the same thing to JAZZ -- which is, after all, AMERICA'S CLASSICAL MUSIC.

This has LEGENDARY DAVIS all over it.