i agree totally
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Leslie N. Shill <icehouse@redshift.com>
To: Pedro Cevallos <pedro_cevallos@hotmail.com>
Cc: acid <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: + CDr Trades +
> Pedro,
>
> thanks for the offer to trade and perhaps there might be an opportunity
for
> us to do so in the future but i have to tell you that i have some
difficulty
> with what you are doing from a personal standpoint. With no criticism of
> you, your conscience is your own guide in these matters, it is important
to
> me to support as many artists as i can by actually buying their discs. By
> buying the discs i am making my own small contribution to the well-being
of
> the artists, independent music and to the creative process, i think that
is
> more important than the ultimate size and scope of my own personal
> collection of discs. My idea is that the listees on this list are probably
> in the forefront of appreciation and recognition that the creators of AJ
and
> it's related sounds can count on besides their own immediate circles. The
> fact that you seem to want almost the entire catalogue of Instinct to
trade
> is a little disturbing to me, what do you not want to trade? what are the
> last ten discs that you actually paid for in cash? i am only too happy to
> trade discs that are very hard to find or out of print but the readily
> available stuff does not fall into that category. A number of people have
> asked me to burn the Troublemakers cd for them and i have obliged just a
> couple of those folks because the disc is not yet released and i think it
> deserves to be heard but all-in-all, i would far prefer to see the artists
> get the support in the commercial world than i would like to see them as
the
> most-traded and collectable artists who now cannot afford to record their
> next release!
>
> just my own personal opinion, i doubt that it would slow down your trading
> activities but i hope that it does give you a pause for thought about this
> acitivity of yours
>
> leslie/The Power of Sound
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pedro Cevallos <pedro_cevallos@hotmail.com>
> To: <icehouse@redshift.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: + CDr Trades +
>
>
> > >just as a matter of interest, do you get ALL your music by trading
> >CDr's?
> > >I understand getting the occasional hard-to-find CDr and trying >to get
> new
> > >stuff early that way if there is no availability but it >seems to me
that
> > >you are trying to build an entire collection via >trading, do you buy
ANY
> > >of your discs?
> >
> >
> > I spend close to $250/month on music (vinyl and CDs). I trade in order
to
> > maximize my collection. Wanna trade?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Pedro Cevallos
> > --
> > "...beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into
> > time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the
process,
> > we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a
world
> > made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded."
> > -- Neil Postman --
> > http://www.geocities.com/mr_cevallos/
> >
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