RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

I once urged a bunch of people to find and shop at
their local music store and got called hypocritical
because I'm in a band that has CD's for sale at Best
Buy.com.  So I don't bring it up anymore.

Offbeat is new, and I'm prepared to give them extra
slack because of that.  But you go in there, and the
first thing you think is, "now I know what millennium
did with their racks, etc."  It's very clean, but
sparse.  I go into CD alley and there are piles of
CD's everywhere.  Cluttered, crowded.  Ahhh, yes.

Hep

--- paok <bluefreaky AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> I doubt the music industry as a whole has any
> interest in dealing with this issue.   Do you really
> think a big label cares whether or not a place like
> Best Buy or wal-fart is undercutting the little guy?
> 
> If you want a cd for under $10, get it used.  Yes,
> you may not be able to get exactly what you want
> when you want it (but then, you said yourself that
> 'spree was't what you actually wanted), but you'll
> find lots of fun surprises in the used bins.  I
> not-so-recently found Adult's "anxiety" and Ghost's
> "Hypnotic Underworld" at cd alley.
> 
> I must note, like ross did, that it's a little odd
> that you're piping in about over-paying the underdog
> when you're asking us to pay more for cover/beers
> yourself.  There are connections, obviously, between
> small independent record stores and local music, and
> I suspect the fates of each are somewhat woven
> together.  
> 
> phaedra
> 
> 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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> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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> 
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