Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:34:15 -0400 From: "Mark" <clamshoe at citlink dot net> Subject: internet theft and sleepless bassline
It's just wonderful that so many have gotten exposed to new musics thanks to internet theft. I hope that when you all write a great piece of music and it gets published on the net without your permission, that you feel so well about this pheneomenon.
Does anyone remember good old fashioned research? The buzz of reading reviews and scouring the record stores and finding that record that'll blow your mates away.
And I hope that the creative types among you will be encouraged by the many of these optimistic posts that suggest that most everyone will go out and purchase a copy. But most won't, Trust me folks. Precious few will. Perhaps the good ET'ers with impeccable tastes and moral stoutheartedness will. But the kids that actually consume pop music (and once upon a time, payed for it) will find other ways to spend their hard earned cash than music thay can "file share"(read steal) off of the net.
I recall having an almost perverse possesivness about my finds, NEVER making any copies, and being downright smug about having pieces of music my peers were not diligent enough to discover, or too cheap to pay for. I was bloody proud of my meager collection of 300 LP's.
Re: sleepless bassline. There is an excellent version of it on B'Boom(live bootleg auth.) with a Levin prominent mix that allows us to hear the delay in question very nicely. I'm sure there are others but that one works for me, particularly the intro.
best.