The current trend for downloading music on the internet has ruined the music industry, according to Blondie star Debbie Harry.
Harry was speaking to BANG Showbiz at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards, where she stated her belief that the music industry ‘is already ruined’, and has traced the changes in record buying habits back to the introduction of cassettes.
“The music industry is already ruined,” she said. “Computers and the internet and downloading songs completely ruined the music industry and everything artists used to work for.”
“I remember when vinyl was corrupted by cassettes and the whole industry went crazy thinking nobody would sell any records, so it’s really been heading this way for quite some time.”
Blondie released the album ‘Panic Of Girls‘, their first studio record for the best part of a decade, earlier this year. A special ‘Collector’s Pack’ edition included a 132-page magazine, four postcards, six badges and a poster.