In a message dated 10/24/00 7:24:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
reynolda@sas.upenn.edu writes:
<< i don't know what's worse... the lingering impact of twelve years of
reagan and bush snr's military-industrial spending sprees <snip!>
...or my current music buying habits, which are almost but not quite as
frivolous.
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"Almost" as frivolous? Sweet Merciful, Alex, mine are *astronomically* more
frivolous--and I have the IDM-squandered Graduate School University Stipends
and bloody credit-card bills (coupled with the unspeakable Dantean horrors of
multiple decades of severe-debt-Hades looming on the near horizon) to prove
it...
*sigh*
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in seriousness though, tipper probably did more to point kids to the
good stuff, and did more for the music industry to sell records than
any prude before her. most of the american audience for idm probably
wouldn't exist in its current form without her influence on our
tastes.
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True.
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but ignoring more than a decade of ultra right-wing, hard-fisted rule
is a bit tough for some of us. sorry, joel.
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Fine, if that's the way you see it. I'm not trying to change anyone's minds
here; truth be told, I'm more of a Libertarian than I am a Republican,
anyhow--as are many of us Reaganites who perhaps <cough!> part ideological
ways with the Republican Party, shall we say, when it comes to certain drug
policies. My point was simply that I don't want to read about
*politics*--whether they happen align with my own views or not--on an *IDM*
list. Two consecutive simply rants tripped my trigger.
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so down with dubya! kid606/cex in 2000! rock the vote! pbbt!
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Pbbt! indeed. Now *there's* a ticket I could get behind...
Oh, yes: In addition to my planning on voting for George W., did I forget to
mention that I think Aphex, Autechre, and BOC are, for the most part, utter
crap (save, perhaps, for the latter's _Hi Scores_)...?!? No, really. I *do*.
;-)
<Quickly reaches for "Sign Off" icon...>
yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,
Joel
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