Re: [microsound] [OT] Glut of stupid human simplified thinking .

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

izam studio replies;

> People have begun to say this due to them relating everything to the
> cheapness of cdr and downloading for 'free '
> and taking a knieve and simply attitude based on - a cdr cost me 40 P ,
why
> should i pay £10 for a cd . , thats a very flawed way of thinking but
> exactly what i heard many people say and is used to supports people who
> claim music is overpriced .

I fully agree. There will be many cases where though the physical cd may not
have the much value the music is well worth paying for. If so I do.

>
> Vinyl i never heard called overpriced by anyone  , and it doesnt cost much
> more to press than cd or didnt but as you say , if you cant create it
> yourself in any form then it becomes valued even if this is an illusion in
> some sense.

Certainly. I´d like to clarify that my post was more of a analysis of
certain feelings I detect in myself, knowing they have paradoxical elements
than a case I´d like to make pleading for anything. What you write here is
true too, at least for me. Promotional or demo cds that I get yet dislike
get thrown away while records I get the same way get filed in some
uncomfortable corner in the hope that I might find some new kind of apeal in
them later.

I freely admit that this is not as it should be, there is some illusionary
value being created in my mind, especially as cds take far less space.
Perhaps that can be filed under "glut of stupid human simplified thinking"
but at least I dare look this in the eye and admit something is going on.
Aditionally, I do pay for my music, in fact I´m quite happy to. I don´t buy
that much, being fairly critical but I have no hesitations about trading
cash for musical enjoyment, in fact I will cheerfully offer trades of
bottles for home pressed cd´s if I encounter good music by people who don´t
regularly release. I honestly think even comercial cd prices are a bargain
of you enjoy the album and play it often


Still, these phenomena of illusionary value play a role too and I wanted to
point them out.

Yours,
Kas.



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