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1994-10-17 01:04Money & Music
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1994-10-17 01:04Number19@aol.comfms@MIT.EDU wrote: >The availability certainly may be an issue. Most idm and ambient music
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fms@MIT.EDU wrote:
quoted 11 lines The availability certainly may be an issue. Most idm and ambient music>The availability certainly may be an issue. Most idm and ambient music >is being produced in England and generally sold for import prices. Who >has the money to waste :) on all this stuff? Though that really only >applies for America... > >Oh, but you need equipment of some kind to make techno. The chances of >your parents or older friends having equipment that you can beg, borrow, >or steal is rather slim so you probably have to have some amount of >money to set up a studio of some sort. > >In any case, I would say that money is definately an issue.
Number19 responds: The money aspect is the biggest bummer of digging this scene. I make a pretty good professional living and have been fortunate enough to put together a "beginner's" MIDI studio. I also mail order a fair amount of import music every month. But it's getting to the point that I really can't afford to keep supporting this scene to the extent I'd like. Too much music is coming out -- a case of quality *and* quantity. But it's all priced so high! It averages $25.00 for an import full-length -- doesn't it seem like prices were in the $13-$15 range just 5 years or so ago? Oh well... what to do? I'm addicted. Peace, 19. BTW: if this is a repeat post, I apologize -- mail hasn't been going through, me thinks. So if this goes through, I'd like to again ask if someone would please send me info on Terre Thaemlitz? Thanx.