ravital
Just Another Pesky Independent Nh Voter
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join:2001-07-19
Merrimack, NH
| reply to The Truth7
Re: Very nice of them!
said by The Truth7  :
If most of your music is crap, noone's gonna buy your damn cd, point blank.
Here is where your argument fails: The fact that a particular piece of music is bought by many people and downloaded (legally or not) by many others is not an indication of the quality of the work. The difference between the shrink-wrapped CD from the store and the P2P-downloaded material is not that the CD is garbage and the d/l music is the greatest work of music ever recorded. The difference is that the CD is 90% garbage that the consumer doesn't want and the d/l music is 100% garbage that the consumer wants.
Okay, probably not 100% garbage, but this principle that "lots of people want it = high quality music" is simply not true. I mean, isn't that how RIAA labels have suckered all of us for years to begin with? "top 40" and "Platinum" and "Best selling" all of a sudden are the marks of quality? If music proves anything, it proves that different people have different tastes, and what's garbage to you is the most beautiful music to someone else. said by The Truth7 :
they're going to piss off a large amount of today's youth and they aren't going to buy the crap anymore.
While we're on the topic of "today's youth" and different musical tastes and garbage music and all that, I'm sure there's a few young folks out there who dig Jazz or classical music, but do you think you can find a lot of those kinds of music on an average day on Kazaa or any other P2P network? So if you can't find any Bach or Beethoven or Keith Jarrett or Charlie Mingus on P2P, does that mean they're garbage?
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petecellar
join:2002-10-15
Philadelphia, PA
| [QUOTE]While we're on the topic of "today's youth" and different musical tastes and garbage music and all that, I'm sure there's a few young folks out there who dig Jazz or classical music, but do you think you can find a lot of those kinds of music on an average day on Kazaa or any other P2P network? So if you can't find any Bach or Beethoven or Keith Jarrett or Charlie Mingus on P2P, does that mean they're garbage?
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For what it's worth, there is a LOT of Jazz and Classical on P2P. |
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ravital
Just Another Pesky Independent Nh Voter
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join:2001-07-19
Merrimack, NH
| said by petecellar :
For what it's worth, there is a LOT of Jazz and Classical on P2P.
Well, that's news to me, and I appreciate the tip.  |
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