Even java can’t subsidize the record business. It seems Starbucks is exiting its day-to-day management of its Hear Music Record Label.

The Lunatics have always wondered, what qualified this coffee retailer to be a music company? Did they really think they could succeed in this complex business because they had some available counter space for their point of purchase CDs? The Lunatics always found these bogus repackages of out takes and re-records of established artists embarrassing and painful.