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moedecker	Date: June 25, 2006 @ 2:27 PM I don't know about you guys but I don't buy a thing these days from the corporate market. It's all junk. Who needs the image of music anyway. It was musicians that made the industry and now they are trying to make the musician. It doesn't work that way from the obvious history and present examples of bands and cd's that they demand outrageous fees for us to watch and listen to. They are so arrogant as to think some little ol' lady or children are going to cause the demise of their business management strategies. They're killing themselves by demanding too high of prices for maybe one song on a cd that's not even worth listening to. Just remember we make the music and they steal our right to play it. When will the masses learn after all the years they've been dummied down? Now, ten years, twenty, never? I'm sick of all this money money money for something that soothes the soul. It is not now and never was about filling their artist's or their pockets indefinitely. Afterall they refuse to even give really creative original artists a chance to make a living at their craft and so those artist have to go out and get real jobs never to be heard from again. Let the manufactured artist and industry lose their golden goose and do what the rest of us have to do, work for a living!!! Don't buy anything from them and go to your local jams and play or listen to your neighbors, that's where it all happens. The machine does not care about you or your music, realize that. You make the industry and they destroy it. They need us, we don't need them!!!! PLAY ON BROTHER, PLAY ON GENTLY
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: June 25, 2006 @ 2:43 PM People will pay a fair price for a good product, people don't like being treated like brainless morons who are there to be gouged. The major labels and RIAA have had it good for so long and they are corporate dinosaurs - they should have been changing their business model in the early 90's to prepare for the new era in digital technology, instead they went in denial and just tried to keep everything as it was since old father tyme began. Disagree with you that we should not pay for any artists music or that all musicians should go amateur and work and that music should always be free - I admire those people who follow this philosphy but also there are a lot of hard-working independent musicians slaving their asses off for barely a crust. working the bars and living for their art. Many have NO label support but still sell CD's of their original work nd they have to play hundreds of gigs a year, often in horrendous dives, playing music they don't enjoy, just so they can do the thing they love. Anyway, I agree that the RIAA sucks, does not represent the artists properly as a body or in terms of fair recompensation and that they should work at changing their philospohies and business model and get with the program, rather than suing dead people for file sharing etc.
RocShaman	Date: June 28, 2006 @ 8:16 AM Support your local indies!!!! Support your local musicians!!!! Some of the best music I hear these days comes out of small independant studios (like mine) and small independant labels/record producers. Most of those outfits are into it because they love the music and believe in it. They give the artists creative freedom and when you allow that, magic happens. All that for a great price. Who needs the majors???

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