Hey, Warner Brothers: Who's Your Target Market For "Covered"? [Burning Questions]

Warner Brothers Records is celebrating its 50th year as a label with an album of current artists covering classic cuts from the label's archives, and while I suppose there's some appeal to hearing Taking Back Sunday play a Tom Petty track, let's be real: Who is going to pay for that privilege in the Internet age? The disc itself isn't bad, with well-play songs that shuffle through genres like a radio dial stuck on "seek." Sure, back in the day I was one of those people who purchased Elektra's s...

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