> I wonder how many people on this list would do thew same if they were in his > shoes?
> How many people on this list are reading from corporate accounts? You sell > you personal time like he sells his music. Are you any better than he is? Is > he better paid than you are, who is the sucker? > moby can retire tomorrow from the royalties and licencing fees he recived > from that last record, can you afford to quit your job? It's not anything to do with who's a sucker. It's to do with the representation of a music. Moby represents techno, according to MTV, which is not just absurd to the likes of yer average 313 subscriber but offensive to anyone concerned about telling the truth about a thing's history. I would hope that nobody on this list *would* do the same in his shoes seeing as it is very easy to acknowledge the roots of where you are coming from, or, better, to put the record straight and admit that is no longer where you are coming from (i.e. "I am not techno, MTV viewers") and, before, anyone accuses me of naivety, I'll use the old chesnut of the Rolling Stones' "What's the point in listening to us doing 'I'm a King Bee' when you can hear Slim Harpo do it?" - it's really that easy. When it comes to moral worth Moby couldn't retire tomorrow, I reckon. And I'll take that as my criterion of who sucks, cheers. Jonny.
