Rc's words ring true. Exactly my point when I compared Moby to a clever musical con-artist. Without the massive push of capital & marketing machinery of companies like sony (& all the phonies who dole out music like so much fastfood)to back him up he'd collapse in a bewildered heap under the weight of his own self-delusions.
Sure, we all live in glasshouses (even those of us in the trenches, arguably), and criticizing Moby on this list is like harpooning whales in a lagoon, but the stakes are enormous. It's about more than musical integrity, which the likes of Atkins & Hawtin will always have in spades. The con is on. Wes On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, RC wrote: > I think that in the music industry more than any other (except maybe > fashion) 'consumer soveriegnty' has been taken over by 'producer > sovereignty' that is; people don't necessarily buy what they like; but they > buy what they are trained and told to like by the marketing arms of huge > music publishers and record labels that have bottomless budgets and employ > trained psychologists to f**ck with peoples heads that really should know > better. > > Rc
