My Oh My, I think T Wrecks has got
THE point !!! 8o
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4) With their current signing policies, they are actively teaching young folk a throwaway mentality towards music. They actively teach them that music is short-lived, trend-dominated sound junk. [...] No wonder kiddies don't see a value in music and d/l happily away, until they have their HDs filled with more muzak than they'll ever even hear!
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Is that still "music" anyway ? Is that still ART ?
I think it's the whole culture that is being hijacked by the market. Look at movies: same thing. No way to produce a decent movie if you don't have millions of $$$ yourself and you refuse to be under the boot of a hollywood label. Other than that you'll be condemned to make yet another america-saves-the-world-again $2 movie
(just kidding: not ALL Hollywood movies are like this... there are good ones... but less and less
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/me reminds of SoUlFaThEr's bot chat
Same thing for books. You can write basically anything you want, but if you want to make a living of it and be published, you'll have to write what the market expects, i.e, your publisher may like your book but if he doesn't think it will sell as good as another cheapass roman in the current fashion, you won't be published at all.
All in all I think it comes down to the respect you have for art. Respect can't be forced, you can't force people to respect a junk music they don't make use of as "music" but rather like some sort of "ambient sound", through fines and inprisonments. I think this measure may have some effect of intimidation but the problem won't be solved like this for sure, and sooner or later when both the dissidence and the repression will have reached insane heights ... something will happen ...
people will pull their mexican hats and riot together, ay caramba! 8D
...ah well, just kidding, nevermind, I'm talking out of my ass again
but this thread looks sooo serious...