I know the music business is changing and evolving because we now live in a digital, and still material, world. We ran two stories about it in the business section this year, so I really do get that it has to change. But this article from the New York Times still made me a little bit queasy.

I know Wal-Mart is the “Big Bad” in the retail world and the chain is an easy target on so many levels. But what made me particularly nauseated were these two sentences.

No. 1: “Wal-Mart was the largest music retailer in the country last year.”

And …

Wal-Mart, that icon of American capitalism, also symbolizes a corporate giant that Americans love to hate and hate to love. Perceptions abound that the behemoth of bargain shopping destroys small businesses, kills jobs, lowers wages, creates sprawl, ruins a community’s character and more. Yet, thousands of shoppers flood its aisles daily and governments haul in its sales tax dollars.