Amen... I have a proximate thought that is... Mall culture, the Walmart marketplace, is so cheap and corny that any wazoo can consume... so pilfering goods from this mall of America and duping Brit. Spears defeats the mass photocopy mentality most folks are living... Thus the market could easily become out of control and the easy gravy train the fat cats in Hollywood are accustom to us filling with our hard earned cash would quickly derail.
-----Original Message----- From: Harkins,Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:36 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: DOJ to swappers Law's not on your side - Tech News - CNET.com You know when we moved from albums to tapes and then CD's, some of the mystique of the object got lost in the shuffle - I think. But that is still there and I think more than ever these days it is becoming important. So with the album/CD you get Photos, artwork, lyrics and other little extras, even the look of the CD. I have lots of mp3s but I still buy CDs, some of which were from artists I discovered through (good old) Napster. Napster for me was a very cool exercise in community. Many of the recordings I found there are not commercially available. I had great conversations with people in California, Germany, England and so on.... Napster and others allowed one to kind of sidestep the force-feeding of culture, something that the record companies are anxious to prevent, but that was exciting to me. That genie is out of the bottle now, and I don't believe it can be recapped. When it comes to mass culture, I find it hard to have sympathy for its purveyors. It is such a contrast to say when I went to a festival this summer, and I would have happily spent $1000 or more on CD's if I had it. Patrick ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
