RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Screw that.  I want to be home in time for The Daily
Show!

--- david gourley <davidg.nospam.news AT verizon.net>
wrote:

> 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
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> 


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