Ethan,

This line of thought is an interesting puzzle. And a serious one I feel. I agree that the effort to sanitize the world may mean we lose some art. Thats a shame that is nearly criminal. The artist who creates a grand work and fails to get the work seen because no one will publish it based on editorial policy has the right to self publish. The problems of distribution are now in the hands of the self publisher. Ask Sandy how hard it is to distribute widely with a small label when the world goes to malls and Media Play. It almost seems that no matter how honest and pure we like to keep our art, for some, the market place may be the ultimate arbiter of success.

Look at what we lost when Electra Records made the editorial policy not to produce folk music anymore. I think that policy was made by business men and not by musicians and a business policy was sold to us as a change in editorial policy. Oh well, thats the world.

Don