downloading free belle and sebastian then who in hell is supporting them? and people wonder why bands are so slow on the uptake of making new albums...while i don't want to go on the "woe is belle and sebastian" rant, i wonder how bands really feel about people downloading their music at no costs. sure...it's great...but you have to wonder where to draw the line...and just how *you* support your favorite artists. it's almost comparable to liking a painting, finding a picture, printing it, and then framing it... furthermore, going to school the next day and ranting and raving about your new wall hanging. I mean to say that the quality is rarely there...plus there is also something to be said for working (or sparechanging) for your favorite album. It's like this, people...music becomes cheap when you have such accessibility to it. Where are the good ole days that you had to wait til you got home to find out if your new CD sucked. Napster has ruined the evolutionary process of the music cycle. I once got a Tindersticks album for free because the boy that bought it found out that he didn't like it...and gave it to me....I can bet my bowl o' cherries that won't happen again. There is a sort of food chain of music collecting that is dying here. And while you all think you are getting this great sneaky, clean free music, someone is paying the price...and its almost like cutting off your nose to spite your face. One could argue in defense that live concerts is where all the money is made, though I doubt that (e.g., Magnetic Fields just played for four dollars) heh. I look forward to the end to Napster...then I don't have to listen to those fruity tooty girls on the bus talking about how they just heard the most unbelievable version of Radiohead or Badly Drawn Boy's- this or that. I mean once people have to pay for it again they are only really prone to seek out the good stuff, and not even the good stuff...but what they won't consider a waste of time and money. and then we can get back to knowing who genuinely likes great music and who is just willing to download it because it's free. Just because someone downloads a few cut tracks of an album doesn't make them a fan of the band. Furthermore, well screw it...I am getting off of my soapbox now...and I realise that most of you like Napster, as I have read several posts that are indicative of such, so I am just going to stop now. But before I go...I should tell you this...I have nearly everything by belle and sebastian (that is accessible to me) and I praise every blowjob I gave to see to such. Double Heh. Isabel Lark +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+