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Johnny C:
if you are remotely familiar with modernism you will probably be able to see the general thrust of my argument - that there are things we are losing and have lost, and that that is a fundamentally bad thing
Johnny C:
the reason i don't like bands giving away their shit for free is that it enables what i view to be ultimately lazy and selfish behaviour on the part of the listener, i don't think that should be hard to follow at this point but i'll spell it out anyhow
Johnny C:
the assumption that i'm speaking haughtily from the position of the artist and demanding that you value my work is like grossly erroneous and doesn't address anything i've said.
try going into a library and photocopying the whole book and taking it home, tender. they don't appreciate it. i've tried.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 23 Sep 2010, 23:19 ---the reason i don't like bands giving away their shit for free is that it enables what i view to be ultimately lazy and selfish behaviour on the part of the listener, i don't think that should be hard to follow at this point but i'll spell it out anyhow
--- End quote ---
It's fairly hard to follow because it makes no sense. I thought you were all 'pop music fuck yeah', but now music is only something to be appreciated by an elite of true listeners. Only the dedicated may truly understand music, and if they do not show sufficient dedication they should be actively excluded.
And what's the fundamental change in listening habits? People listen to music more, and in more contexts (because of portability), and they listen to it more in their own way (picking and choosing certain songs or playlists rather than being tied down to the artists/labels choice). But what's actually changed. It's not like in the past everyone was a fucking audiophile douchebag sitting down in a big leather armchair to listen to whole albums on LP played through big Beyerdynamic studio headphones and stroking their nasty little soulpatch whilst they wrote essays about the essentiality of having to change the record four times to truly appreciate Dark Side of the Moon. People have had discos, jukeboxes, radio, player pianos, cheap as fuck seven inch singles and so on for years. Things are just now more advanced, convenient and personal. I don't happen to believe that art is something that can only truly be understood in a certain format, and I think it's absolutely ludicrous to suggest that free music, or digital music 'separates us from others'. It's just a nonsensical idea.
Incidentally, when did you start that annoying affectation of not using capital letters and full stops at the end of paragraphs? It's kinda sad. Also as I'm sure I've remarked before, the rhetorical use of multiple posts for punctuating your ideas has its place but just not in every single thread.
Johnny C:
i can't stick around and make the massive post i'm going to make later right now, so in the meantime khar could you actually concretely nail down where and how i am an elitist instead of just calling me one in every single thread where i disagree with you?
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