Hi Michael,
I was hoping you would respond to my article. You say: Death to mass consumption.Long live the blogs. Others, like Mr. Miff, say: Death to illegal downloads. Long live the industry. Interestingly, both of you say: I don´t have money for records.
I don´t know what to say. I´m somewhere in the middle. I love records and without some sort of “industry” there would be no records. My blog would not exist either. Excellent labels like Bear Family Records, Rhino, Sundazed and even Norton Records are part of that same record industry. They do a fantastic job at digging up, remastering and reissuing lost music. They´re my heroes. Why should I want to see them gone?
One thing I know, is that I´m deeply confused by the whole digital world and all the people that seem to feel so comfortable in it. I wished listening to music was simple again. Like, if suddenly the power went out for enough time to send us way back in time like in “Escape from L.A.”. Without electricity I would still be able to play some records on my battery-run record player for a few years, while all the other people would be crying into their dead Ipods, Ipads, cellphones and all these other stupid devices that I will never want to own. Until they would pick up instruments and play live music again.
Then I would be happy….