quoted 2 lines If there were just one person to whom I could say "please...please
> If there were just one person to whom I could say "please...please
> don't take my music..."...
First off, it's not "your" music. You didn't create it -- you just paid
the same $14.95 that all the teenyboppers are going to pay for it if the
stuff breaks onto the charts. Don't fool yourself info thinking that
tossing your fifteen bucks into the till before most of the rest of the
world gives you the right to sling this superior "I *understand* the music
-- everyone else only listens to it because they're mindless cattle!"
horseshit around.
And nobody is "taking" anything away from you. Is MTV going to come over
to your house and strap you into a chair with your eyes propped open and
force you to watch films of kittens being fed into the maws of John Deere
chipper/shredders while they play your favorite Autechre track until
you're so brainwashed that you're incapable of separating the music from
the sheer terror in your mind? No...they're going to put it out in the
light where everyone can see it, and surprise surprise, out of the
gazillions of people who see it, some fraction will actually *enjoy* it
(JUST LIKE YOU) and go out and buy their own copies (JUST LIKE YOU) and
tell their friends about it (JUST LIKE YOU).
(You've probably pissed your pants at this point just thinking about all
those filthy nasty NORMAL people actually LIKING THE SAME MUSIC AS *SPECIAL
OL' YOU*.)
There is no "taking" going on here. You've decided to use the music you
like as some kind of barrier between you and the rest of the world -- and
if the rest of the world starts to like the music too, you're going to
*give it up*. Well, excuse the fuck out of me for not having any sympathy
for *that*...
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::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com;
http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)