Jay Currie

“Today, it has become purely voluntary to pay for music,” Griffin told Portfolio.com in an exclusive sit-down this week. “If I tell you to go listen to this band, you could pay, or you might not. It’s pretty much up to you. So the music business has become a big tip jar.” portfolio.com

Jim Griffin is a smart guy and Warners is smart to hire him. Of course they would have been brilliant had they adopted the “music as service model” a week after Napster was founded which would be, well nearly a decade ago.