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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney again |
| Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:49:44 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Stewart Mason wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net>
> > P.S. And Elvis Costello is a tool too! FCC those guys -- it's all
> > about the
> > money. Trust me, I know. There are so many music people now, whose
> > music I've once dug quite a bit, that are selling out and going for
> > more
> > money and trying to pass it off as a shrewd business move
>
> I hate to sound cynical about this, but as a general rule, "going for
> more money" does in fact equal "shrewd business move."
Well...there's long-term and there's short-term. If you're alienating part
of your fan base, like Elvis seems to be doing now, that might be a good
business move for the short term, but not the long. Then again, nobody
seems to be able to think of the long term in the music business these
days.
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