I don't expect everyone to agree with me. However, if you'd like to understand what I'm talking about, I'd recommend picking up an instrument like the guitar, the piano, or the saxophone, and learning to truly master it. It will take longer than you ever imagined, and your fingers will bleed and hurt. After many years of frustration and endless boring practice of scales and etudes, you'll start to understand just how priceless those juicy little phrases everyone's so eager to load into their samplers really are.
Also, if you want to rail against evil corporations (I know I do), there are much more evil ones to pick on than the music companies. Union Carbide's a good start, they killed a thousand people in one night in India. Halliburton profits from death and destruction every day. Wal-Mart is laying waste to small towns in the American heartland with their predatory pricing. The worst Sony and their ilk ever gave us was talentless pop stars and silly sampling lawsuits; at least they never *killed* anyone...
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Also, if you want to rail against evil corporations (I know I do), there are much more evil ones to pick on than the music companies. Union Carbide's a good start, they killed a thousand people in one night in India. Halliburton profits from death and destruction every day. Wal-Mart is laying waste to small towns in the American heartland with their predatory pricing. The worst Sony and their ilk ever gave us was talentless pop stars and silly sampling lawsuits; at least they never *killed* anyone...
- G.K. Wicker 9-13-2005 6:05 am