RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

You clearly missed the spinal tap reference.

xo
chris

James Hepler wrote:
> 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
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>>>>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
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>>*perception* (as voiced by
>>
>>>>Matt Hedt earlier) that anything more than $12 is
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>>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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