On Fri, 29 Apr 1994, B R O T H E R A L P H A B E T wrote:
quoted 12 lines Everything will begin on the edge and be considered 'cool' and then it>
> Everything will begin on the edge and be considered 'cool' and then it
> will be picked up by shrewd marketeers and sold until its old hat. It is
> the method of the beast. the corporate beast. enjoy the underground
> while its underground. but dont attach to it high ideals. there are
> those in every group who will sell the souls of the rest regardless of
> what some in the same group want.
>
> its a nasty law of nature...i have to deal with it in art...the fads,
> etc...i just have to try to keep growing and hope im never considered
> 'trendy'
>
My regards exactly but my point was in sort of taking it a step further
and stating that when all the commercialism flourishes then those
dedicated to "experimental" (i.e. underground) will push even deeper.
This all in turn brings a wilder, weirder, underground while the "above"
ground aspects that are being commercialized sort of help feed the growth
of the more experimental by bringing money into the scene.
We're kinda' going deep into it while my comment was aimed at a reference
to an annoying strain on the list that I was not familiar with. Being new
and all I apologize for the misunderstanding. I guess it's a pet peeve
of mine when people criticize promotion of the scene. I realize that people
can get pretty sleazy at times and there is no excuse for sleaziness. My
misunderstanding.
-robert