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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Mon Feb 24, 2003  11:27 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Freedom of choice!

What he said. I would also point out that oftentimes Your Local Bank will
sell tapes and/or CD's to take home. I've derived some satisfaction by
putting my $10 right in the artist's hand (or the girlfriend/boyfriend's
hand), knowing that once the proud musician covers the expenses of
recording, the rest will be gravy!



Elizabeth Finkler
San Jose, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo

"We got guns, they got guns, all God's chillun got guns!" -- The Marx
Brothers, "Duck Soup"





>From: "Colin Reed" <colin-reed@l...>
>If I don't like the "artists" performing at the Grammys (or even,
>God forbid, The Brits) then I grab a local paper, run down the gig guide,
>and go and support a local band playing live (without a recording contract)
>and do some grass roots support. I do the same with local opera companies
>(although I tend to end up singing for them!) My point is (and there is
>one) that record companies cannot dictate what music you listen to. They
>can only dictate what passive, uninformed and frankly lazy "customers" get.


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