| From: | Skal Loret |
| Date: | 30 Oct 2000 at 16:43:24 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIGEN: Ami-Napster |
On 30 Oct 2000, at 18:21, g'o'tz ohnesorge wrote:
> > First search resulted in multiple copies of a real obscure
> > song I have been looking for for up to a year...!!!
> > Even the music shop had no listing for it...
>
> You wouldn't believe how many people described their experiences and
> motives with exactly the same words.
Yes, but you see, there is a reason that you cannot find that song in
the shops: The Music Industry, in its awesome and eldritch wisdom,
has decided that you don't want to hear it and so, you will not. They
have decised for you that you would much rather listen to endless hip-
hop(made on shoestring budgets in cheap studios, with computer-canned
music), Brittney, N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, Christina...ad nauseaum.
Why?
Because these acts give them a better profit margin, due to lower
overhead and less brains(in most cases. What happens to a hip-hop
artist that starts demanding his fair share? He gets commercially
"dissapeared". For that matter, almost any artist...).
> > Just goes to show, I gave up thinking about it when I heard the
> > legal woes about Napster & thought they killed it - dead..
>
> Had they any brains in The Music Industry, they'd have bought it.
> Would have cost less than the lawyers, and made them fscking rich by
> even their own standards by now. But you know how our recognised
> intimate expert to the matter Skal Loret always describes them.
The phrase "Rapacious Bastards" comes readily to mind. But that's the
lawyers and accountants and managers and record company slugs(Oh, and
are they slugs!) and agents.
If you all promise to keep a secret, and keep the story here, I will
tell you all a story about a group of three rock starZ(...and boy, do
you know THEIR names!) who did something so cool, so generous and so
heartwarming that you will be hard-pressed to not shed a little tear.
But you gotta promise! I DON'T want to see this in the papers!
> Hm .. brains .. Brains .. The Brains .. I see a new commercially
> designed teeny boy band being made. Or girl band even .. nah, that
> would be too obviously ironic. :P
There was/is a band called "Bad Brains". A strangely apropos name...
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