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| From | Sam Smith <samsmith@colorado.edu> |
| Subject | Re: The Way the Music Died |
| Date | Wed, 26 May 2004 09:43:13 -0600 |
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Okay, somebody else sent me this yesterday, and I want to offer the same
comment I did then.
>In the recording studios of Los Angeles and the boardrooms of New York, they say the record business has been hit by a perfect storm: a convergence of industry-wide consolidation, Internet theft, and artistic drought. The effect has been the loss of billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and that indefinable quality that once characterized American pop music.
>
"Artistic drought"?! I'm sorry, but if you think there's an artistic
drought, you have just proven that you're too stupid for me to waste my
time listening to.
I think there are some well-documented problems with the term "Internet
theft," but there can be no doubt at all about RIAA theft - when artists
have to start suing to get what they're owed, I think there's some
question as to who is really being served.
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch,
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing
from your heart.
- John Millington Synge
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