----- Original Message ----- From: "William Crump" <crumpw@bellsouth.net> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: Re: CD burning/smash the RIAA!
...the sooner we crush the existing recording industry and cut the corporations out of the loop, the sooner the artists can deal directly with their public.... studio recordings would exist only as free tastes to be freely disseminated
But artists are already free to do this if they think it will work. Why "crush corporations"? If this model works, let it exist side by side with the old model. I'd support it. Some consumers would gravitate towards it purely for the "independent" cred it would give their image.
which would encourage the artists and their audiences to get up offa their couch and conduct the REAL business of music --
Sure, some people would go for this. But a lot of entertainment-consumers are more interested in image, in manufacturing/aquiring their identities (not casting stones, here; we were all teenagers at one time), in big media spectacles, in getting a predictable, reproducible, acceptable experience. And they want it delivered to their couches. It's their right to consume big corporate "art" if they like, isn't it? Sometimes there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.