From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 14:58
From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 14:58
> > > I'd like to see more labels doing things like the Muslimgauze 'Melt' > > > release. You got a top quality release and even the super hi-res artwork > > > files. If the labels cared about getting their music out to people rather > > > than playing games with the spotters they'd all be doing internet releases. Cool! > > I really disagree with this attitude. A lot of people into computers seem > > to forget that the vast majority of people in the world don't have > > computers, & (obviously) even fewer people have computers with web & sound > > capabilities. And here I have to guess at how many people have computers (in the UK) compared to how many people have record players... (I have both :-). I'd bet there's now more people with a computer. Everyone on this e-mail list, by definition, has an Internet-capable computer. And (in the UK at least) you can get a web&sound capable computer for around 50 quid (the price has dropped dramatically over the past couple of years). Some big companies are *giving* away entire computer rooms, because the machines are just out of date. > Hence my objection to Public Enemy doing an MP3 release. MP4, actually. Perhaps they will encourage more people to get a cheap computer, and that would seem to be a good thing. Sorry, but I think it's just as elitist saying "You can't use a computer, it's not cool" as saying "You can't use a computer, you're poor and from the ghetto". Just IMHO, of course. Jeremy.