quoted 14 lines From: "cath animon" <cathanimon@hotmail.com>
>From: "cath animon" <cathanimon@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: RE: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired Magazine,
>2/2003
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:09:30 +0000
>
>
>the way i see it, quite simply, if artists don't make a living from sales
>of hard copies of their work, they will ultimately have to return to
>life-eating day-jobs which will only destroy their potential.
>you can't be expected to create great music as well as catching the bus to
>work every morning...
>
>
you're joking right?
maybe I've finally reached the point where I can't tell what a writer is
saying without an onslaught of emoticons.
If you are serious, you're being extreamly short-sighted. To begin with
artists aren't born into record deals, and so they must have found SOME way
to get by through standard financial means and make music good enough to get
recognized by a label. Furthur, in my opinion, if an artists has become
unable to work without financial retribution, then his work is no longer
art, but product. I'm not saying 'getting paid for art is bad', I'm saying
'if you can't make art without getting paid for it, then its bad'.
To comment on 'the world without record labels', I acctually have often
fantisied about this. In the communication orgy we live in today I see
record labels as not only greedy, but obsolet. I can get more of what I
want faster, easier, and more reliably from p2p clients then any record
store I've ever been to. To be honest I only use record labels as a
starting point when researching new groups, as in 'I like these guys on this
label, maybe I should check out other groups on this label'. Beyond the
actual lack of functionality in my life, labels are whores. They turn art
into commerce at any expense save financial, and then use their power to
influence our culture into buying whatever pair of tits they're pushing this
week.
erm, well that's my two cents... or perhaps two bits.
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