I read that this morning, and while there are some valid points, I do have some problems with it. One is the suggestion that composers should consider concert tickets and t-shirts to be the only way to make money. That's fine if you're the kind of band who can sell concert tickets and t-shirts, but it very narrowly defines what music should be allowed to make money. There are a lot of artists who aren't likely to sell t-shirts, and often if you're not a somewhat successful act, you are either giving the venue the ticket proceeds or actively paying the venue to let you play. The second is the suggestion that expecting to sell music is totally unreasonable. Even if it were true that it were currently commercially viable because of the climate of sharing and so on, that doesn't make having the idea that you should be able to do that an unreasonable position. And the last is the suggestion that NOBODY AT ALL pays for music anymore, which is clearly untrue, given the wild continuing success of record labels and of services like iTunes. It's one thing to say that it's a reality that a lot of people are relying on subscription-based cloud services or on piracy. It's another thing (and a clearly false thing) to say that ALL people are.