Re: [microsound] confusion

[craquemattic <craque@xxxxxxxxxx>]

it's in these places - netlabels, microsound, myspace - that i end up  
finding the most unique and interesting of music.

i don't quite follow the argument that the 'feeling' of a site is  
going to dilute the value of my music. does being part of the  
community and having something of value to contribute cause that  
community to rise in value as well, to evolve its 'feel'? i think  
probably so, but it's not really something that paramount to me.  
kinda like property value.

the larger question, to me, is not whether myspace, but whether the  
community of people who populate the internet. once upon a time (over  
ten years ago), the internet was such a silent and accommodating  
resting spot for the technologically advanced; nowadays it is  
infiltrated by the mass media, because there is an increasingly  
dominant Greatest Common Denominator factor going on.

so is it that myspace is such a bad thing? or that the people using  
it are at fault? am i to be castigated for using a communication tool  
that 50 million others happen to be using? and why should i even need  
to use the tool in the same way they are? i'm quite sure i don't.

i guess i'm just not following all these economic arguments. the  
inherent capitalism is a given.

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