Re: [microsound] fetishization

["<<< audi sensa >>>" <audisensa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> industry is ALL about driving demand through spectacle and fetishization
> (desire)...the CDs they sell are merely widgets to shift in order to make
> money...in the throes of its current collapse they are mining the past 25
> years of music for fragments of melody/chord changes and repackaging it to
> kids growing up listening to their parents "classic rock" records...this
> subtle formula of subliminal "re-familiarization" or nostalgia is how they
> are making most of their money today

that's got to be the best review of The Strokes' album that I've ever read.