RTP-area local music and culture

[John I <not AT hotmail.com>]

grady wrote:

> Bryk wrote:
>> ross, WTF that was a little harsh.
> 
> Yes, it was. However, you have to admit that giving bands a binary 
> choice between charging <$12/CD or losing a sale to a burned copy is 
> also a little harsh. Glenn subsequently pointed out that he was merely 
> giving voice to the same decision being made daily by gazillions of 
> kids, and that their threshold amount is probably closer to $3. Or maybe 
> he didn't point that out exactly, but he was right, in whatever he said. 
> Damn these kids today. I should have directed my reaction at the Gods of 
> the Youth Market, rather than at Glenn.
> 
> That still doesn't do much to help the artists, however, except for in a 
> sort of Bushian sense of "helping" them to confront the reality of how 
> fucked they are.
> 
> But most musicians I know don't need any more help with that one, as 
> Skillet so eloquently pointed out.
> 
> I suppose one could translate what Glenn was saying into "bands who 
> charge more than $12 per CD are probably shooting themselves in the 
> foot, because the kids today will have the *perception* (as voiced by 
> Matt Hedt earlier) that anything more than $12 is somehow a ripoff, 
> regardless of reality."
> 
> What *I* don't understand is why anybody can bitch at all about any 
> prices down at the indie-rock level we're talking about. Have y'all been 
> to Walnut Creek lately (or to that Stones show at Duke last year)? You 
> get half as much music for 100X the price, *and* it sucks ass to boot. 
> Plus you have to pay to park, and half the time you get rained on. $8 
> for a show at a bar with $3 beers and $12 CDs is quite possibly the last 
> greatest entertainment bargain in the universe.
> 

A-Men.  Give me a smokey crowded bar where I can see The Pink Slips, SNMNMNM, 
and whomever for 6 bones over an overpriced vanity case like Madonna, et al. 
any day of the week.  Just make it start at 8 and stop by 10.