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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Don Henley |
| Date | Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:44:57 -0500 |
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Wait a sec -- how much were tickets for the last Eagles tour????
Pity poor poverty stricken Don Henley.
He's just trying to feed his family and the legions of stylists, managers,
fluffers and hangers-on who make his life worth living, and P2P pirates are
stealing the very bread from his mouth.
In the parlance of the yung'uns. PUH-leeze.
----- Original Message -----
From: <DanAbnrml9@aol.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: Don Henley
> In a message dated 2/20/2004 5:01:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
>
> <<Don Henley Must . . . write a reasonably intelligent piece about the
music
> industry ? ? ? >>
>
> Shockingly, yes, but this paragraph disturbed me:
>
> "Music stores used to be magical places offering wide variety. Today the
> three largest music retailers are Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Target. In those
stores
> shelf space is limited, making it harder for new artists to emerge. Even
> established artists are troubled by stores using music as a loss leader.
Smaller,
> more personalized record stores are closing all over the country -- some
because
> of rampant P2P piracy but many others because of competition from
department
> stores that traditionally have no connection whatsoever with artists."
>
> Interesting words coming from the mouth of a man whose band offered a Best
> Buy EXCLUSIVE, effectively edging out those "smaller, more personalized
record
> stores". Don Henley's entire argument collapses like a house of cards
because
> of this, sadly... he's lured by money just as much as the labels he's
> complaining about. --Jason
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