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Apple Talk / Re: A few facts about our new member, Queen Gogira
« on: January 20, 2012, 08:44:02 pm »
These are all the nicest things that anyone has every said about me.
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There is still an implication here that any artist that is considered "mainstream" is part of the problem and needs to be punished. Just to put that into perspective, that would mean a band like Sonic Youth, who have been a major label recording artist. Now, anyone who knows anything about Thurston Moore and the Youth would know that they don't exactly fit into the same mold as a band like Metallica that's bitched and moaned about Napster, et al. But they signed with a major label, in part, to cast a wider net with their music and get more people into what the art they are producing.Whether a band deserves to be compensated for their artistic efforts or not I think is pretty well agreed upon ITT (yes, they fucking do). Choosing not to purchase from any label would just be the most intellectually sound way of trying to get at what the original goal here kind of was (to punish the machine that is distributing content and also being dickholes). While that in theory could hurt some artists who are already on labels, that does not prevent artists from leaving labels to go the independent distribution route, nor does it constitute theft in any meaningful sense (unless you are then pirating their music instead of doing without).
I dunno, this seems rather akin to an idea of being pissed off about the War in Iraq and spitting on the soldiers to punish the lawmakers that put them in the dessert. Entertainers deserve to be paid and supported like any other person working and creating a product in the USA. "Destroying Hollywood" isn't going to accomplish what you think it will accomplish, and you'll be taking out a whole host of hard-working Americans while the Fat Cats remain fat.
I think that everyone is a Discordian in some sense (via POEE if nothing else). However, every cabal may have a completely different concept of what being a Discordian is for them. Some cabals are full of clowns, some are full of philosophers, some are full of scientists... all of them are full of Shit.I like this one.
Maybe thats it... you're not a Discordian (for some definitions of the word), if you don't realize that you're full of shit.
Hail Eris!
Oh... That's actually pretty nice. Thanks!