In a message dated 05/08/2000 6:20:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< How about we cut out the bits of paintings we don't like, too, and demand
our
money back? How come people who complain about spending their hardearned
money
on art always follow up by criticizing artists for being too desirous of
money?
Like bitching about spending an extra ten bucks isn't materialistic?
The difference for me there, is that I get to see the entire painting before
I buy it. With cd's most of the time only a couple of the cuts get played on
the air, and without listening rooms, you can't tell what you're buying. And
yes, I'm materialistic in the sense that I only have so many ten bucks, and
not a lot of extra ones, so I have to be careful where I spend it. Yes, if I
worked more, I'd have more money, but I don't want to work fulltime. I don't
think it's horrible to want to know what you're buying. It'd be nice to be
able to just buy the cuts I want from a cd, and that's what MP3s could be
good for, in my opinion.
<<Come on. Artists are human beings. They make interesting artifacts, that's
what
they do. They are not responsible for pleasing you, they are responsible for
making interesting artifacts. You are responsible for finding the flipping
inner
resources to make the most of those artifacts. Of course tomorrow I'll take
up
the other cause. I'm just tired of hearing people say, "I'm too cheap to give
money to those moneygrubbing musicians." >>
Some artists make interesting artifacts. Some artists make uninteresting
artifacts. I never said they're responsible for pleasing me. In fact, it
would probably be a duller world if every artist had to enter a "Being John
Malkovitch" kind of portal and run through my brain before creating
something. Scary thought, even for me. But I'm certainly not responsible for
buying their artifacts if I don't like em, anymore than they're responsible
for pleasing me.
And if I shell out $15 for a cd, I'd like the whole cd to be good, not just
one or two cuts. That's all I'm saying. I never said I didn't believe in
paying for people's work. As for Metallica, I could care less if they make
anymore money or not. Can't help it. I just don't care. The entire big record
industry is such a rip off and keeps so many good musicians out of the loop,
that I find it difficult to care that mulit-millionaire bands don't get
another 10 million. I'm more interested in small-time musicians being able to
be heard and distribute their wares on the web.
Or what if you buy a cd, based on advertising and cover art, thinking it's
going to "fit" and you get it home, and it doesn't fit your head? Be nice if
you could return it, the way you can return clothes that don't fit.
BP
