Self-Inflicted Wounds Hit Charade - "But anyone who rewinds to the last major music-biz slump will find some interesting parallels. In 1978, record sales began to fall, and the major labels blamed a larcenous new technology: cassette tapes. The international industry even had an outraged official slogan: "Home taping is killing music." The idea was that music fans - ingrates that they are - would rather pirate songs than pay for them, and that sharing favorite songs was a crime against hard-working musicians."