Most of us agree with Hipper (Gore?). Most of us have been trying for many decades to change things by WITHOLDING OUR CASH from mainstream music. I do realize that many here call all of it folk now, but I'm into folk music; I'm not into hippyhop or pop or Elvis or rock or much of the rest. My own recordings were done for companies and people I love and admire. I've watched them have to use boxes of vinyl records for firewood in their fireplaces when new tech stuff, from cassettes to CDs to MP3s to DVDs and whatever's next, made their life's work, if not exactly obsolete, it's made it economically terribly difficult if not completely untenable. And this includes the present condition of the company on which I issued my last record (CD) just 3 years ago.

It all leaves me wondering if life is short in order to keep us from needing to re-buy our music collections yet another time in order to line the ever-growing humongous pockets of the corporate big-time world !?

Art Thieme