From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018071721113845035-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Yes, and that's why their records sold ( sorta ).   The point he was   
   > circling was that record companies are businesses. They don't exist to   
   > press records any pay to have them on the radio for nothing.  Doing that   
   > costs money.  Recording the sessions cost money.  Pressing records costs   
   > money.  Paying DJ's to spin the records costs money.   
      
   But an *art*-related business Must Not Ignore art if they want to remain an   
   art-related business, because the alternative is that they'd *cease* to be   
   an art-related business and instead become part of the CRAP business!!!   
      
   Just because something isn't as popular as something else is no reason for   
   abandoning it.   
      
   I still remember stores stocking a Huge VARIETY of items in order to present   
   diverse selections to diverse customers...THE WAY IT SHOULD  BE!!!   
      
   They considered it the  Right thing for a business to do, and they were   
   Right!!!   
      
   It's time to return to that!!!   
      
   > So records company have to sell records to pay for all this.  Because of   
   > that, they generally try to bet on bands that stand a good chance of   
   > selling records.   
      
   That's okay *IF* that doesn't mean they focus *exclusively* on that, at the   
   expense of Variety and Diversity.   
      
   If you can figure out a way to do all that for free, then get to it.   
      
   Very simple, a Gift Economy!!!   
      
   > You could fill the world with the oddball songs that only a few people   
   > would buy.   
      
   It used to be that way, which is why Frank Zappa is so well known, time to   
   return to that.   
      
   > Good luck.   
      
   There's no such thing as 'luck', it's just a term to describe being   
   fortunate. Besides, I've got Faith, and that's what it really takes!!!   
      
   > It's hard to be successful in the music business if you hate the very idea   
   > of " business ".   
      
   Because Music is Art, NOT 'business'. Rather, there are those who make a   
   business of getting involved with Music and in so doing, all too often   
   Pollute it with so much more Corruption.   
      
   > There might be a middle.  It's where I am.   
      
   Jim   
      
   There could be, but that could end up being a very precarious balancing act,   
   because if things tip towards Stale and Boring, it will further Ruin Music!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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