i like this reply better than his selfish rant:

Since this article addresses issues of interest to performing musicians, I’d like to throw my two cents in for the non-performing composer. There are other reasons for making music than commercial entertainment. Though it’s true that music has always been a social art form, it’s function as a private artistic experience goes back long before Bach, who believed in music as spiritual meditation. The advanced expressive capabilities of modern multi-track work stations and computer recording equipment turn music composition into an art closer to sculpture or painting than to the old collaborative 20th century model. I compose music for no other reason than the inner compulsion to make art. The tech is making this possible, and affordable.

We have long come to terms with poetry as an art of the everyday person, it’s rewards coming in the realm of personal expression or limited public prestige, and poetry flourishes in America. I hope music production evolves into a “folk” art as ubiquitous as nature. The music business will always be with us, but music itself must wake up from its commercialist delusion and become art again. Only artists can make that happen.

you can read the coug’s article, here. some things good, some not so good.