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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