quoted 7 lines Personally, I preview a great deal of my music from the newsgroups
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>Personally, I preview a great deal of my music from the newsgroups
>(alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.electronic). I then take what I enjoy, buy it
>online and stream on StaticBeats webcast
>(http://www.staticbeats.com/webcast) along with everything else I've bought
>from skimo, fe, boomkat juno, etc.. People tune in to the webcast and in
>turn go find the music and buy it themselves.
Just latching on to the last part of what Shimone said - I think the bit
about buying the music in some form is crucial. I don't want to open the
whole downloading can of worms, but at some point the practical
consequences of nobody paying seem rather obvious. And I would add that *I*
find it just as important to support people like David Hogson (Playing By
Ear = playing.by.ear@mindspring.com) and PJ Dorsey (S://kimo =
support@skimo.com )
as they ~are~ the smalltown "mom and pop" corner stores of the electronic
music world.
You can add your local shops and others doing what they do to the list (for
instance, Chris Twomey is now doing New Power from Canada =
newpower@interlog.com )
, Smallfish and Boomkat across the pond, etc). Personally I want to keep
these lines of distribution open and the only way to do that is to support
them by buying the stuff I want from **them**. The biggies make enough on
other stuff and these people get (listen and understand) things they won't
know about anyway. These days I would even call Forced Exposure somewhat of
a "biggie", often undercutting the smaller shops they supply and making it
hard for them to survive.
I'm lucky enough to live near Detroit and can get a lot of great stuff in
many good shops (e.g., Record Time), but I have to say that David, PJ and
Chris all have things on their update lists that I won't see on the racks
and I'd have to pay a fortune to have shipped - and the dollar vs. the euro
sure isn't making imports easier, let alone customs hassles. Since 911 the
"small guys" really have taken a sharp drop in sales. Not to get up on a
soapbox, but they really do need the support of this community to survive.
If you have troubles finding the new sounds you need, do yourself a favor
and get on their update lists. You won't regret it.
jeff
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