Hey All, This was what I MEANT to post yesterday.

Melancholy Chris wrote:

<<<I've been asked by the band to remove the mp3 files <<<from the net, due to the <<<nature of the gig and the poor sound quality of the <<<recording. I should have checked with them if it was <<<ok to upload the gig, <<<and I didn't. <<<I can't make everyone who downloaded them delete <<<them, so all I can do is <<<apologize to the band for that. <<<I thought I was doing a good thing, but as usual I've <<<ended up feeling like <<<a total cunt.

Pickle Prince's Two Cents worth:

Although, I half-expected this to happen and wished it wouldn't, I still have to say:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

What I wonder is:

Was it a band decision or mgmt or the label?

Maybe no else cares, and after the Napster debacle recently on sinister, maybe some or most agree with taking the songs down.

It makes me more than slightly miffed. Not only because I can't get those tracks, but because of this treatment of music as a commodity.

I'm SICK of it.

When are we going to realize that ideas (art...etc...) are free. And that disseminating them is the goal. Anyone who deviates from this ideal is not a musician at all, but a hack.

I am fully willing to trade money and fame for INFLUENCE. And most bands we like claim to agree. If not, they aren't being very outspoken about it.

The days of the RAWKSTAR and POP (as in top 40) STAR are on the decline. We are not plumbers (not that there's anything wrong if we were). We aren't laborers. If it's such a labor for a band, leave! Leave music behind and sell commodities of some sort.

It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I DON'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT!!!!!

and that's the shame of it all.......

The Pickle Prince

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