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>Cris wrote:
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>> Of course i recognise the workings of nepotistic and corrupt and bankrupt
>> aesthetics in the art world and the workings of multi-national corporations
>> in the music industry. Personally i won't have a recording in the house -
>> nor a machine to play them on.
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>Personally, the modern recording industry means that the quotient
>of enjoyment (and emotional catharsis) in my life is increased.
>For example, the commercial CD means that I can vicariously enjoy
>the bittersweet pleasure of the last live gig my favourite Aussie
>band ever played, despite the fact that I was ten thousand miles
>away at the time. Presumably, from what you say, this kind of thing
>is problematic for you. Why? What would your ideal world be like?
>I don't mean this as an attack: I'm genuinely intrigued by your
>asceticism on this issue.
I too was quite baffled by this choice, cris, and I agree very much with
what Kona says. I can understand why you may want to boycott the big
multinational corporations, but there are loads of independant recording
companies and music distributors - why deprive yourself of the pleasure
of these? It doesn't seem to make any more sense than refusing to have
any publications in the house (including those of, say Sound & Language
and Pig Press) because your objections to multinational publishing
corporations like, say, HarperCollins. And also, why do produce CDs with
Garam Masala or the one with Songs from Navigation, for example?
Or am I somehow missing the point completely?
Nigel
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