At 5:12 PM -0800 3/25/98, you wrote:
quoted 3 lines Or is IDM> Or is IDM
>inherently artistically pure because we stand very little chance of selling
>more than a couple of thousand records.
It's certainly true that low commercial viability keeps a genre
(relatively) pure. The fame-and-fortune-seekers generally seek greener
pastures.
quoted 2 lines It's a standard rock cliche - " we>It's a standard rock cliche - " we
>make the music for ourselves - and if anyone else likes it it's a bonus".
I've certainly known talented people of whom this is true.
Most of them skip meals to buy CDs, chain-smoke, undersleep, have suffered
from more than one electric shock and at least some permanent hearing
damage from accidently patching in a brutal effects feedback loop, and
serve french fries or some such by day.
However, they make some cruelly beautiful noise.
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