RTP-area local music and culture

["dmccall" <dmccall AT nc.rr.com>]

If it was THEIR product that was being sold in long boxes, why did they have
to come whining to ME about it? 1000 years from now the landfills won't have
a single piece of cardboard from the 80's. They WILL, on the other hand,
have this plastic. Funny how I don't hear REM whining about their current
product and how long it will last in the landfill (because that's where it
belongs!)
-- 
Dana McCall
Raleigh, NC


"Bill K" <billk AT nospam.com> wrote in message 3FD03198.2CC AT nospam.com">news:3FD03198.2CC AT nospam.com...
> > Remember all the hooey that rock stars made about the wasteful practice
of
> > selling CD's in cardboard "long boxes?"
>
> Is this a troll, or am I missing something?  It was THEIR albums being
> sold in them, so they felt they had a responsibility to say something.
> The labels didn't give most of them a say in the matter: every R.E.M.
> album through Automatic for the People (1992) came in one.
>
>
> > Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the millions of CDR "coasters" and
AOL
> > givaways a MUCH bigger problem for landfills 1000 years from now? This
is
> > just making Michael Stipe, Bono, and all the others look stupid.
>
> Nah.  Trying to find a link between longboxes and AOL/CDR coasters just
> makes you look stupid.
>
> Should I send an open letter to Bono and Stipe on your behalf to
> encourage them to protest the use of pizza boxes?  And paper towels?
> The landfill is full of empty soup cans, too - maybe I'll fax Sting for
> some help.
>
> -BK