Is Bands Moving to Online Distrubution of Their Music Part of a Trend?

I hope so, as the record distributors are a group of contemptable greedheads who rip off both the fans and the artists, and who should be the first ones agaisnt the wall when the revolution comes.

As it stands now, Both Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have dumped record distributors completely.

Certainly, getting their tracks on iTunes^®, or some similar service should be pretty easy, as the marginal cost of keeping a track in a virtual "warehouse" is fractions of a penny.

Considering the number of hits out there from 40 years ago that are still "not recouped" by the record labels, there is no reason today for bands to go with the lables.