On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:13:20 -0500 "Pierre Toussaint" <pierrecharlestoussaint@yahoo.ca> wrote:
I try to never copy independant releases.
I'm seeing this opinion a lot in this discussion, but it seems not to consider fully the issue of what a truly "independent" CD is. Granted, we can pretty much agree that a Britney Spears CD isn't what we'd call "independent". And a CD-R release with artist-only distribution is independent. But what about Tzadik CDs? They, after all have rather good distribution and show up in record stores pretty much indistinguishably from megalabel stuff. And what about independent labels that have distribution deals with major labels? Or tiny labels such as OgreOgress that get into stores often by the arduous store-by-store effort of the label owners? Or obscure or import labels where it's very hard to tell who owns them and how much of the purchase price gets back to the artist? Or the small labels where the artist gets paid in copies of the disc, regardless of how many of the full run are sold or for what price? I think there's a lot of grey area here that would beneft from more careful consideration. -- | jzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | GPG: A4224EFA http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code / VoiceWAVE Silence: the John Cage Discussion List |