Re: [microsound] file-swapping is killing the record industry...so keep doing it!

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My vote is for Squarepusher "Go Plastic" for album of the year.  Not to dis 
Aliciea Keys but "Red hot car is a way better song" 




Quoting anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> from the SF GATE MORNING FIX
> Thu, 28 Feb 2002
> 
> >   Recording Industry Totally Not Kidding Dammit
> > Recording Academy President C. Michael Greene used his speech at the
> >bland and totally rigged Grammy Awards to lobby for an end to rampant
> >electronic music-swapping, which he said is damaging the recording
> >industry and totally screwing with his ability to scam millions of
> dollars
> >from the idiot public in a thinly veiled act of major ongoing
> consumer
> >fraud. "This illegal file-sharing and ripping of music is pervasive,
> out
> >of control and it's oh so criminal," Greene said, as no one anywhere
> >actually had any idea what this guy actually does for a living,as in
> >actual work. The industry complains that record sales are plummeting
> and
> >profit margins are thin, largely because of the illegal swapping of
> music
> >files over the Internet, and not because the recording industry has
> been
> >ripping off consumers for years and gleefully overcharging and
> gouging
> >artists for major chunks of their livelihoods and artificially
> inflating
> >the cost of CDs and being entirely slothful in keeping up with new
> >technologies because they're largely lazy and corporate and
> unethical.
> >"You little punk-ass kids keep this up, and I won't be able to make
> my
> >Hummer payments," Greene should've added, wagging a finger, secretly
> >longing for the time when a very drunk David Hasselhoff serenaded him
> in
> >his hot tub and he felt his first real pangs of genuine love.
> 
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