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the video is actually kind of inspiring

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so pumped about them getting the attention they deserve!! :D Vote everyone, Fictionist is great!

Well I wasn't proposing that at all, I hope you don't think I was! Basically I think we're in complete agreement actually.

fuck tha haters :awesome:

Well yeah, but why do we need to reject the image of each camp? Or rather, target one camp over another. I suppose if each image was rejected equally it'd be okay :lol: edit: btw that parody pitchfork review is actually mildly funny, one of about 2 times the Onion has made me smile, haha.

life is so hard

^pretty much me every day /sob

STOP IT EVERYONE I DON'T HAVE TIME TO LITSEN TO YOUR DOUBTLESSLY GREAT MIXTAPES HNGNGNGHSLGHEWO ywtSTSLKhs

Sorry man, if you can't get it to work I might reupload later :kiss:

I probs will but not at the moment.

Eddie for REAL this shit is SICK

oh young love :wacky: (all my fucking young love is ruined by the love-ee having a fucking girlfriend grar grar grumble bumble :phu:)

oh, fine. I'm afraid it'll let joo down thoughhh D: https://rapidshare.com/files/458064001/special_mixtape_JUST_FOR_YOU___.zip (it's not really just for you) Incidentally, Eddie, I'm listening to your tape now and I'm on the Madvillian track and this shit is fucking sick, it's like a black version of Frontier Psychiatrist.

hi! I made your tape. I took a lot of chances cuz I know a lot of what I put on there was not necessarily to the taste of everyone. I hope it was an interesting experience either way though! Again, I sort of had a weird genre combination going here, because I didn't want to bore you (which I trust I didn't, even during the weird computer noises! :P). I also found it hard to gather much about your taste so I sort of just decided to wing it with this tape. Thanks for reveiwing! By the way, I am really quite sorry that all the information apparently didn't delete, but I checked each track on my computer and Windows told me it didn't know artist/album/cover information at all. :/ I don't think I've ever made this mistake before, or if I have, only on a few tracks that were hardcoded to protect the artist, etc information, so I'm really perplexed about that. :wtf:

:thumbsup: Ya got taste bro

I dunno, I used to hate Lady Gaga just because I couldn't look past the showiness and silly costuming, and so on, and then I discovered I actually liked some of her music as music, and then I that I actually liked her as a person past that too (she's actually quite smart and kind if you watch an in-depth interview). I don't feel like the trouble with music is with the image of one camp over another, but like has been mentioned, of the elitism/rejection within each camp.

You have one by Eddie in it :phu: don't tell me I'm not good enough because I'm not Briggins.

Yeah, they could, but I don't see why they would really be flexible enough to want to adjust to something like that. The music industry as we know it would have to go extinct or nearly so before it would reach for little snacks like that. (They already take royalties from on-air/on-line radio, but they wouldn't shift their attention to just that, is what I mean.)

You don't have any Metric? Sort your life out.

^bared, brah And Be Prepared is a close second for me, it's just that I've been jamming out regularly to I Just Can't Wait to be King since I was an infant practically.

^Yeah, I have to say I'm far more naturally inclined to that model, last.fm & co. are already changing the way people consume music drastically, for the better, I think. But no record label would just advertise for the band if the only way to buy was direct from the band :lol: They have to get profits in somewhere, and I think they deserve them at least for marketing.

I dunno, it's a thorny issue. Music will be okay if we stop selling it, I think, cuz I'm pretty sure people won't ever want to give up the concert/live music experience. But on the other hand the record labels are what gets the music out in a consumable form so that people go to the concerts these days, and so on.

^Yeah, the business model of the industry as we know it needs to change, but in honesty, the "music industry" has only been around since the invention of the record, so it could just be a passing phase entirely. I wouldn't be surprised if it just had a short-lived little existence due to recorded, physical media before the inevitable advent of recoded, digital media. If the music industry morphed in such a complete way as you suggest, I dunno if we'd even consider it the "music industry" anymore.

That, I agree with. You can't go to a single fucking music video on youtube without some arrogant bellend going THE 37 PEOPLE WHO DISLIKED THIS PERSONALLY STROKE JUSTIN BIEBER'S PENIS EVERY DAY. And the indie faggotry is especially pronounced recently, but the entitled upper class of music listeners go through phases like this a lot, I think we'll overall be okay. edit: Also, as much as it pains me to say it (I love me my torrents + mediafires) the gobble-gobble-gobble instant gratification pay-nothing culture that feels like it has a right to get anything digital it wants for free isn't helping either. Value for art performance has gone down a lot. It used to be you went to a concert to hear music, and it was a big deal. Then at least you heard them on your nice fancy radio. Then at least you bought their singles on vinyl. Then at LEAST you got the album and listened to it with your friends. Then at least you bought the CD and played it in your car, etc. Now we sort of just download shit, put it on our hard drives (not even necessarily keep it), and go on with our lives. Which isn't to say that that's necessarily bad, it's just a very rapid switch from being performer-oriented to being more, I dunno, recording-oriented isn't the word I want but it's the only appropriate one I can think of. I think we'll adjust eventually, though. I don't forsee the internet police seriously being able to put a stop to illegal downloading, so either we'll live with it and keep going to concerts or the recording medium will take over live performing in the long run. We'll have to see. edit dos: (So now that I understand what you actually meant, I suppose I agree at least to an extent.)