Yorick, I beleive you know me.. I jsut gotta say that I think you are being WAY to hard on napster and the whole "mp3" thing. If it wasn't for mp3s I would not have the passion for music that I do today, nor would I being doing a Diploma in Contemporay music. The fact that you can download tracks of artists you have never heard before to "check them out" to have such easy access to so many different bands and music all over the world.
look at it this way.. the radio is much the same, we call jsut tape the tracks being played on the radio and keep them for ourselves. But its not the same is it? personally I always prefer to buy an album of band that I really enjoy listening to.. but not before ive heard some of there stuff on mp3.
I do know how much CRAP you have to go through to get you music out into the big wide world without the added bonus of the internet. The internet makes it so much easyer for all those people that don't have the funding for such things.. the internet and mp3s are a GOOD thing I asure you.. I don't think its going away either, even Madonna is on mp3.com now.
If you want to discuss it more you can jsut email me.. I just had to add my tidbit.
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