Are streaming services good or bad for music? Maximo Park's Paul Smith thinks they're "a mixed...

[S]treaming doesn't really benefit many people, apart from, financially, the really top people. I suppose record companies are making some money from it, but I think overall it's great to be able to listen to a record before you buy it as well. That's another way to help the consumer, if it comes down to that, because a lot of people just churn out music as part of an industry, and it's not really worth the plastic it's printed on sometimes! - Paul Smith, Maximo Park Official via Kate Goodacre, Digital Spy [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]