> In my view its way easier to substitute for a specific piece of music > (or a band's lifetime output) than a piece of software. If I can't find > a favorite CD, it ticks me off, but then I listen to some other favorite > music, or discover some new favorite music, and am pretty darned happy.
Come on now, Mike. There is only one "Teenage Riot". Music is not a tool with functionality like office productivity software. The beautiful mystery of art and music is that they enrich our lives without having specific purpose. While a piece of music might cheer you up, make you dance, or score a film, and there may be many pieces of music that effect these results, to exchange that it for a different piece of music is a shift fundamentally unlike the differences between Writer, Google Docs, and WordPerfect. When I listen to certain recordings, I am threading a course through all of the memories of past experiences I have linked to that particular work. This relationship is distinct and it partially explains why people often feel ownership over recordings they had no hand in producing. They will say, "This is my song" or "That was our song" and I don't disagree with them. Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
