At 09:31 07/05/97 GMT, you wrote:
quoted 2 lines i plan to burn a limited amount of copies of the ae ra show by the end of>>>>i plan to burn a limited amount of copies of the ae ra show by the end of
>>>>the month [limited = no more cds than fingers]. quoted 1 line and people wonder why there aren't more RA broadcasts.>>>and people wonder why there aren't more RA broadcasts.quoted 2 lines if we wanted shitty CD-Rs with our music on them being distributed>>>if we wanted shitty CD-Rs with our music on them being distributed
>>>we'd be doing it ourselves.quoted 3 lines is this a piss poor attitude or what? watch you don't choke on that big>>is this a piss poor attitude or what? watch you don't choke on that big
>>fat cigar greg. i'd tell you to mind your own 'business' but you seem to
>>be doing that already, and with a vengeancequoted 1 line eh?>eh?quoted 3 lines it's nothing, REPEAT, *NOTHING* to do with profit; for fucks sake>it's nothing, REPEAT, *NOTHING* to do with profit; for fucks sake
>pressing the thing up in the first place and giving them away for free
>must have cost us nearly a grand.
and who did you give them to? pisshead radio jocks
and where did I mention profit?
quoted 5 lines we probably could make money from it if we wanted to, give it a fancy>we probably could make money from it if we wanted to, give it a fancy
>cover, sell it as an exclusive mix, exclusive tracks etc - but we're
>not, because that's not what we're about - as many people have said -
>whilst it's good it's not that good and certainly doesn't warrant a
>full album release.
right, so why the ball-ache over 10 'unauthorised' copies of a free record
that you don't even WANT to release? infact, why do you think you're so
important that people need to know your opinion on this? warp records
doesn't even come into the equation, this is a guy who is doing a great
favor for a few net-friends, and for you to poke your nose in and start
crying over 'spoiling autechre's b(r)and image' and the CARDINAL sin of
'breaking copyright law', well if I may say to you all, WHAT A SACK OF
CRAP! you should be HAPPY and, indeed, OVER THE MOON that people
(including myself) like your music enough to want to go to this length to
enable people to hear it, because that's what this is about, people sharing
music for the love of it. do you remember feeling like this before the
cash register landed on your head?
and as for ordering some poor guy to take the ra file off his site, well,
just what do you think you're playing at here?
REMEMBER KIDS, HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. AND IT'S ILLEGAL!
quoted 2 lines it about a principle. the principle is copyright and almost none of>it about a principle. the principle is copyright and almost none of
>you seem to understand it.
so it is about profit then. 'we are reasonable people' indeed. what
month, or what year was it, that w.a.r.p changed its name to w.a.w, stopped
caring about the people who support them and became this horrible,
grotesque, DISTANT corporation that releases limited editions 'because it's
a street thing to do' yet keeps the bandwagon rolling, ready for the
inevitable american buyout. i suppose i'll have to start saving up already
for the car, the house, the washing machine and the warp box set because
what i'm seeing is a major label being born here, not the innovative team i
thought you were once, but of course you don't care about me, because i'm
just a number or a lemming, filling your bank accounts with blood money
if you want to talk about profit margins, charts and graphs, advertising
agency budgets and long-term company strategy, well, give your accountant a
call or something, i don't think anyone here wants to hear it. the fact
that you constantly whine about such things is absolute proof to me that
you've lost it big time. and if you want to be scared by something, well,
i just took delivery of a video8 machine that records 24 HOURS of digital
audio approaching dat quality on a 5 quid cassette, and if anyone out there
has one of these, let's do some trades, and 2 fingers to the gordon geckos
of this world
reasonable people? where?
cheerio
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