Hi. As a poor college student without a car living in a woefully dry area as far as music is concerned, I'd like to put in a plug for Napster. Sometimes it's awful hard to stay up to date with what's good and what's out there...especially when your only retail music source is the mega-Nazi chain Borders :(. You would not BELIEVE how hard it is to track down good music sometimes! Anyhow, I thought I'd let you nay-sayers know that I've never found anything new on Napster that was GOOD that I didn't eventually purchase. I think of it as an expanded listening room. I also think it has potential to do WONDERS for small-time traditional music! Since anybody can get their stuff on it, it's possible to bypass some of that commercial crap...all the people that get listened to because they've got the right agent or the right connections or just a really good publicist...and get the tunes to the people! If you're worth supporting, if you're really good, people WILL pay $$$! In my experience, anyhow. On another note: maybe all disgruntled musicians should unite and make a return to vinyl, eh? I always liked the feel (and smell, come to think of it) of records better.
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