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[Revolting cat!]

"Rosen and her colleagues have failed to grasp the fact that they've already lost. File-sharing has become part of pop culture; witness the Intel ad that shows a scruffy guy happily burning tunes onto a CD-R. To some extent, at least, the record companies have themselves to blame. Whereas blank CDs sell for pennies at the nearest CVS, the price of new releases continues to creep up in most stores, to the point where movies can be cheaper to own."

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Some of Rosen's toughness can be traced to her twenties, when she came out as a lesbian and fought on the frontier of gay politics, becoming an early and ardent advocate for AIDS research. I ask Rosen if she thinks the stereotype of a militant lesbian plays into her image as being too aggressive. She considers this. "I never thought of myself as one of those separatist dykes," she says finally. "But I suppose if people see me that way, that's fine."

...snipHilary Rosen would prefer it if the world's youth didn't think she was hopelessly uncool. She has an iPod. She counts both Al and Tipper Gore, as well as the rapper Chuck D, among her close friends. She helped found Rock the Vote, for God's sake.

I was kind of ambivalent about this issue 'cuz I hate most of the popular music....

Now, I can hardly wait to install a PtP program and start downloading songs!

Defund the Left! Download your music!

[HHFi]

A couple of days ago, Roger Friedman at Fox News wrote a column making the same argument that I've been making on these boards for months (and I've worked in radio for 25 years as a DJ, music- and production director and been closely involved with record companies): that low CD sales are not due to file-sharing but to the fact that current mainstream pop, rock, R&B and country music is lousy. It's all disposable, cookie-cutter crap, and as Friedman so aptly put it, it may be barely worth stealing, but not worth paying for.

Norah Jones seems to be having no problem selling CDs, because she's a unique voice with a genuine musical talent, and she records good songs with melodies that people want to hear more than once. I don't even have a CD burner, and I'm a record collector who buys CDs from all kinds of people in every genre, but the only thing I've bought in the past two years that was on a major label is a Verve collection of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong tracks. That's because it's the only thing I've seen on a major label in two years that was actually worth buying. When major labels start signing people based on their musical talent instead of on their looks, attitude, fashion sense or age, then maybe I'll start buying their product again.

[Wondervixen]

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