Paula, I don't think it's a matter of paying $28 for a CD, it's a matter of paying whatever the market price is. I dont' have a grasp on world economics so don't really understand why things cost what they do in different parts of the world (hey, I barely passed accounting!). The point I'm trying t...

lizzytysh wrote:Aha! Well, it's serving double-duty [whoops, a military pun with that, too ]. Since I'm not familiar with Velvet Goldmine, I'll take full credit for my original [?] interpretation of it .

~ Lizzy

Velvet Underground is a good reference as well, I agree.

What's the cost of the aluminum for a can of coke? Or a plastic bottle? Hardly anything, pennies if that. You're paying for manufacturing, labor, trucks, etc. Why does a pair of This message has been classified as spam and will be deleted by the moderators's that are made for less than $5 in some t...

It is not the artists fault. It is time the main stream sellers realised it is they that are creating this backlash. You can buy a blank CD for 50p, newspapers in Britain at the moment are awash with free CDs both audio and visual and as the paper only costs 50p and you get a free CD and I assume t...

But... Kazaa is one of those peer to peer places, which means you are downloading songs illegally in most parts of the world, thus the artist is not getting anything at all. From Kazaa's website: Use of the software in the manner authorized by Kazaa’s End User License Agreement is legal in most jur...

Hi Velvet - I stopped using Kazaa for the same reason too many viruses. I am still saddled with two that won't go away. But if you don't have sites like Kazza it is very hard to find a song that is past its sell-by date. I recently downloaded "I'd rather go blind" by Chicken Shack and &qu...

Hi Velvet ~ Your response is well reasoned, with regard to how you feel. I'm glad to hear you obtain the majority of your music from the store or legitimate sites [which Kazaa is, right? if not, it's only the 10%'er], where I understand the artist does get a cut. My suggestion for the bumper sticke...

Hi Velvet ~ Your moniker is quite the take-off on Velvet Underground :wink: . Will you be blasting away whilst you post :shock: :wink: ? [Sorry, couldn't resist ~ in fact, land mines are quite a serious issue.] Welcome to the Forum, at any rate :D . ~ Lizzy It's really a play on the term "Velv...

I understand what the author of your transcribed article is saying, but the answer isn't so simple in my opinion. My response is more to the general complaints I always read regarding internet piracy, etc. Burning CDs is quick and easy. I keep all of my favorite albums stored on my computer. When I'...

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands. Surely I'm not the only LC fan who loves them. I realize that JC's lyrics are hardly poetic, but still...good music is good music.

I like a bit of everything...some country (mostly older, pre-80s stuff), classic rock, oldies (everything from the Beatles to the Stones to Motown), and as for newer stuff, my favorite bands are the Strokes, the Libertines, and the White Stripes.

If memory serves, two tribute albums came out in the early-to-mid nineties. One was called "I'm Your Fan" and pretty much the entire thing was brilliant. It featured Lloyd Cole doing "Chelsea Hotel," John Cale (formerly of the Velvet Underground) doing "Hallelujah," the...