RTP-area local music and culture

[david gourley <davidg.nospam.news AT verizon.net>]

John I <not AT hotmail.com> news:Xns976CA41BB75CFoiwhnanri AT 66.26.32.7:

> 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. 
> 

No, no -it's rock!  It must go to 11 !

david