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From:
wells
To:
Guai Lo , , Jeff Pitrman
Date:
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:07:18 -0500
Subject:
RE: (idm) Dude. Microsoft.
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Your claim really doesn't make a bit of sense. You equate selling a song to a commercail with selling out one's fans. Please explain, because it seems to be a really silly idea. - wells oliver / s0ewoliv@vcu.edu [ "you be the lighthouse in the storm and i'll be the ship filled with a thousand dead souls" ]
quoted 21 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message----- > From: Guai Lo [mailto:jotai@mindspring.com] > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 4:42 PM > To: idm@hyperreal.org; Jeff Pitrman > Subject: Re: (idm) Dude. Microsoft. > > I look at it like this: Artist works his ass off to get signed, earns > credibility within a fairly small, but devoted scene, then for whatever > reason, decides to just turn his/her back on his/her fans by > selling song to > TV commercial so that millions of idiots will perceive a company of being > futuristic, and never looking at instrumental electronic music > any other way > partially BECAUSE they've come to associate it with futuristic TV ads. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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