RE: "Brave New World" (was: Re: The Police on Tour)

["aaron leese" <aaronleese@hotmail.com>]

Gee .... wouldn't it be better if the record companies all took a hike, 
and 
we could go back to playing for barn dances and the occasional county 
fair, 
with no real hopes of making it big, and no real possibility for global or 
even country wide distribution.

I mean, big business may have commodified music, and may produce the 
lamest 
sorts of it ...... but what I really resent is that the music industry 
produced the weirder stuff like polka, avant garde jazz, serbian classical 
folk..... wouldn't we all be better off if we had never heard of such 
things?  And the internet ..... worldwide distribution of music of all 
sorts 
for free .... god, don't even get me started.

Lets get back to a time when nobody used business to promote music ... and 
when it wasn't distributed at all .....  Yeah .... that way, none of us 
can 
resent that some people are making huge amounts of money of of music that 
we 
don't think is worthy of such plaudits.....

and poor, pooor us ..... who have laptops ..... and can record music and 
then upload it to the internet and get people all over the world to hear 
it 
......

Who cares if other people are gettin rich off of music .... and what 
difference does it make if the record industry sucks in all sorts of ways 
...... things could always be better ... but they are pretty damn good I'd 
say.

Anyway, thats my half optimist rant ..... I'm sitting at home sick as a 
dog 
with mono .... so I thought I would spread the love.

ciao
Aaron

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