Every bar has at least one guy who is prepared to tell you something about the music business that he thinks you don't already know. It all amounts to exactly this: The field is full of rip-off artists sleazy characters phonies and middlemen out to wring every dime from content that doesn't really belong to them. Like a good country song the details change but the stories stay the same -- trucks and a heartache. The problem with that speech of course is that it's true and everybody knows it. The music business as it stands right now as ...