179,854Messages
9,130Senders
30Years
342mboxes

← back to listing · view thread

From:
Jacob Arnold
To:
Date:
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:34:02 -0700 (MST)
Subject:
Re: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired Magazine, 2/2003
Msg-Id:
<4534.208.29.191.80.1042842842.squirrel@webmail.pair.com>
Mbox:
idm.0301.gz
Notice you don't ever see headlines like "2003: The Year the Art Dealer Dies." You don't hear people saying, "Yeah, now that we have digital photography and the Internet, I'm not paying one penny to those filthy corporate galleries. After all, a canvas and paint only costs $3.50...." Why all the rage against record labels? Is it just because people want things for free? I don't know about you, but I like living in a society where artists can sometimes make a living just making art. I'll chip in a measly $12 for a CD, if it means I'm giving an artist time to be prolific. And I don't mind that some of that money goes to hiring a good sound engineer, or to funding the labels, distributors, and dealers of the music I like. J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org