suggesting that you can only have soul in your music if it's free is a bit insulting to all the soulful labels and artists that do make money. its not a question of "trading soul for money". many artists never compromise and make money. anyway, for financial gain surely the compromise should be the other way - taking the soul out of the music?
john ----- Original Message ----- From: "/0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:00 PM Subject: Re: (313) downloading, peer-to-peer, etc > if you're asking *me*, I've already said I dont support dollar signs being > attached to my music. thats just my own belief, and it doesnt threaten > anyone else. this stemmed from me making music for years, and the anxiety > that comes with releasing it, as opposed to doing it for the love of the > art. my opinion only. > > I dont think musicians that make money from music are doing anything > wrong... if I did, I'd be alienating a large number of my friends... > > I think money dirties the art, and I dont need record labels to distro my > stuff anymore to the REAL audience. I can put it in the hands of the > audience via the internet. I choose to embrace the technology instead of > fighting it. > > I know some of you disagree, and I knew it before I sent the mail. sooo, > save the counter-point emails to me, because this is my own opinion, and > nothing Im trying to push on the world. I already traded the cash for the > soul of my tracks, I've made my choice. > > and no one ever said the musicians dont DESERVE the money, but for me, > selling tracks is like putting my daughter out on the corner to turn tricks. > sure I COULD make money from music, but at the expense of my soul and the > emotion behind the tracks. > > trying to address the torrent of emails I received in response in one > conglomerate email, > > -Joe > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: (313) downloading, peer-to-peer, etc > > > > > > > > > > > > >(i tend to believe, as a producer, that all music, as a > > >form of art, should be free and that no one should make a > > >living as a musician) > > > > most musicians don't - maybe nobody should make a living off of musicians > > they way that unscrupulous record labels do? > > I think that would be a better situation. > > > > I'm not a recording artist but couldn't musician's unions be a bit > stronger > > in fighting the status quo of contracts and payment? Seems like the larger > > unions are in bed with the IIRC and the major media corps. > > > > MEK > > >
