From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Thu, Mar 26th 1998, 14:00
From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Thu, Mar 26th 1998, 14:00
At 5:12 PM -0800 3/25/98, you wrote: > Or is IDM >inherently artistically pure because we stand very little chance of selling >more than a couple of thousand records. It's certainly true that low commercial viability keeps a genre (relatively) pure. The fame-and-fortune-seekers generally seek greener pastures. >It's a standard rock cliche - " we >make the music for ourselves - and if anyone else likes it it's a bonus". I've certainly known talented people of whom this is true. Most of them skip meals to buy CDs, chain-smoke, undersleep, have suffered from more than one electric shock and at least some permanent hearing damage from accidently patching in a brutal effects feedback loop, and serve french fries or some such by day. However, they make some cruelly beautiful noise. 3