"I think what has been a weakness (of hip hop journalism) is because we never had a lot of detachment. There’s not a lot of self-critique about the fact that hip-hop journalism has increasingly become celebrity journalism and [is] falling into the same traps that celebrity journalism falls into." -- Writer/activist/label founder Jeff Chang at an interview at Music Dish.

"For a lot of people in St. Louis, there were two gatekeepers — Vintage Vinyl and KDHX. Now, with the Internet, there are a million fucking gatekeepers." -- Vintage Vinyl co-founder Tom Ray on the market changes since the store opened 26 years ago.

"From the iPod's success to the whitewashed reconstruction of the Napster model to the financial turnaround at Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) would have never happened if not for tens of millions of teens hitting up the peer-to-peer networks for pirated downloads." -- The Motley Fool's Rick Aristotle Munarriz makes a good -- though exaggerated -- argument.

"there need to be more songs with titles like 'blood of the ghost of frankenstien and dracula' or whatever, it doesn't matter, because you can listen to this and do a drive-by, or you can just burn one by yourself, or you can go and put a stake in the foul heart of a child of the night, it doesn't matter because you're still going to feel pretty cool." -- Amazon.com customer review of Scientist's Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires.