With each new piece of technology that comes out we inevitably start hearing about the impending “death” of the music industry. First video was supposed to kill the radio star, and then individual MP3s should have wiped out the album as a cohesive unit. File sharing was supposed to put artists and record labels out of business, and music videos were going to lose their pop culture cachet when MTV ceased playing them. And, all of these gloom-and-doom warnings would have been great to prepare us, except