1. LIFE ISN'T FAIR THAT'S WHY YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY EXPECT TO BE PAID AS A
MUSICIAN AFTER ALL IT'S SOMETHING YOU LOVE and a lot of blather supporting
this 'argument' including a telling jab at trust-fund kids, way to be
different!
Then I obviously should have spent more time playing sports as a child,
athletes get paid quite well I hear. Apparently entertaining people with
song is from now on some kind of happy love-in deal where I pay for all the
equipment (because I love it) and all the production costs (because I love
it) and my own site-hosting fees (because I LOVE IT) and then beg for PayPal
donations/advert revenue. Hmm, maybe you can all just go fuck yourselves and
I'll keep it between myself and a few friends. I'm sure whatever I'm making
is probably not nearly as good as the last Astralwerks CD you burned anyway
2. SO RUDE! + I didn't understand yr argument (understandable) so let me
repost mine
First of all sarcasm doesn't go over in email as I need to remind myself
daily and I'm sorry about that. I still doubt that P2P has a chance of
becoming a truly diverse arena of music, any more than the average record
store or magazine or radio station, because it still relies on the goodwill
of people to keep it from turning into garbage, and the search functions
I've seen are limited e.g. you have to know what you want ahead of time, you
don't just go 'discovering' new bands on P2P unless yr chatroom buddies
introduce you. I still prefer radio and magazines for new music, but then
again I live in DC where the radio don't suck as much. Rudeness is the
counter to your overstructured and self-assured 'essay' and is how I get my
arguments across. I don't post much so when I do you can be sure I'm either
very angry and frustrated (as when 250 filesharing digerati slap each other
on the back) or extremely happy (as when Carl Craig releases a new album)
3. Sentences always end with a period!
No they don't. Read The Economist
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