RTP-area local music and culture

[paok <bluefreaky AT earthlink.net>]

So Hep, you still buying groceries from Cliff's Meat Market?  just curious....

pk

-----Original Message-----
From: Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>
Sent: Jul 22, 2004 9:41 AM
To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: Thank Dennis, Isaac, Lauren, et al  for Nightlight (was 
"nightlight website?")

For context:

The "Why Best Buy Sucks" thread

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&threadm=Pine.A41.3.95.961217092609.32192A-100000%40login2.isis.unc.edu&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dbest%2Bbuy%2Bbo%2Balt.music.chapel-hill%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3DPine.A41.3.95.961217092609.32192A-100000%2540login2.isis.unc.edu%26rnum%3D3

Man, I was such a little polemic back then! Now I'm soft and squishy.

Bo

grady wrote:

> I actually wasn't making a stink, just tweaking Hepler, which is sort of 
> de rigeur around here anyway.
> 
> However, I have to say that if you got it for under $10, then you were 
> paying very little over wholesale, and it's maybe a tiny bit 
> hypocritical for you to post a really long post admonishing local 
> clubgoers to be willing to pay more at the door of your club, *and* 
> pleading with them to occasionally drink something other than PBR, and 
> then turn around & say "it's hard to continually over-pay to support the 
> underdog."
> 
> I mean, I can't believe you charge $1.50 or $2 for PBR when I can get 
> that shit for fifty cents at the Teeter, and keep it in my car, and slip 
> out the door between bands and drink outside. How much longer do you 
> expect me to pay your ridiculous music-industry markups?
> 
> xo
> 
> Ross
> 
> p.s. don't shell out for the PJ Harvey without listening to it first - 
> "best album from her in a while" still doesn't mean it comes anywhere 
> near "Rid of Me."
> 
> Local 506 wrote:
> 
>> But more importantly, I wanted to mention where I bought the disc,
>> since Ross made a stink about it.  I bought it at Best Buy for under
>> $10, along with 3 other albums I wouldn't have bought except for the
>> fact that they were also under ten dollars (Franz Ferdinand, Modest
>> Mouse, Coheed and Cambria.)
>>
>> I've said it before, and I'll say it again - when music falls below
>> the ten dollar mark, it becomes an impulse purchase.   I can easily
>> think of three records I'd rather have than the three above (PJ
>> Harvey, Mission of Burma, AC Newman come to mind) - yet, there's
>> something compelling about spending less.
>>
>> Nothing against CD Alley or any of the other indy shops, but
>> eventually price does matter...and the music industry as a whole will
>> need to address this, because it's hard to continually over-pay to
>> support the underdog.
>>
>> glenn
> 
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