UK Paper Spends 3,099 Words Reminding People That TV Sells Records [Programming Notes]

Yesterday's Observer had a piece on the musical tastemaking enterprise within the UK TV show Skins, which chronicles the debauchery-filled lives of nihilistic kids who represent "Broken Britain." The good thing for the music business: They're partying to the likes of Crystal Castles as they spiral ever downward! Which may mean record sales, or at least that elusive currency known as "awareness." Sure, the whole thesis of the article can be summed up by one statement about five-sixths of the way ...

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