i can't speak for tim's opinion, though having known him for as long as i have, i can say that he's got a pretty low tech recording setup and i'd be surprised if the total cash value of his gear would amount to very much at all. i'm not sure i am reading into his posts in quite the same way that you guys are, but i never saw his comment here because he removed it in order to avoid getting into a pointless flame-war on my blog.
from what kevin and lash both said in your responses makes me think he suggested some sort of government-sponsored tax in order to help artists buy gear?
well, pretty much the rest of the western world has government financing for artists, while the usa - who tout ourselves as the wealthiest nation on earth - makes it increasingly more difficult to support oneself through producing art. kevin, you can't say it wouldn't be nice to receive some sort of stipend that provides financial aid for reptilian records or scapegoat publishing.
something that has been put forth in a variety of forums is the idea that the end user pays for music on a bandwidth usage basis, rather than for individual downloads. i'm not quite certain of how this would be implemented, i haven't read much about the subject, but it might end up being the ultimate solution for the mainstream record industry to keep itself afloat. who knows if that's a good thing or not...
ANNIHILVS POWER ELECTRONIX
- Lee M. Bartow (AKA Leech)
- I founded ANNIHILVS POWER ELECTRONIX in the Summer of 1997 as a means to release and distribute material by NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES and affiliated artists. The first release from ANNIHILVS was the AMALGAM: a collection of war poems split cd. Containing material by NEGATIVE EIGHT, a cross-genre experimental side project of the industrial/grind/metal band NEGATIVEHATE, coupled with early recordings from NTT in the form of lo-fi power electronics and ambient noise, AMALGAM simultaneously introduced both the label and its flagship artist to the world. In the more than ten years since the birth of the label, a massive discography and impressive roster of artists has been assembled. As an artistic endeavour, there is little question that some degree of success has been achieved, strictly based on the number of releases and events under the ANNIHILVS name.
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ta note as i started to wonder what i had said....
Fitzinabox is Lee's friend kevin.
the other kevin, i bel;ieve is Mr. Slaughter.
Lee please refer to me as Fitz:)
"pretty much the rest of the western world has government financing for artists, ... kevin, you can't say it wouldn't be nice to receive some sort of stipend that provides financial aid for reptilian records or scapegoat publishing."
To boil it down to the essentials:
I don't like my money being forcefully taken from me and given to people who could make a living for themselves, but choose to do something they can't make a living at. I also don't want to pay for the salaries of the bureaucrats and the overhead for the infrastructure needed to a) take my money and b) give it to someone else.
I think it'd be nice for a leviathan to force others to do all kinds of nice things for me, but since that also means that same leviathan will be forcing me to do nice things for other people, I'll pass on the fake free lunch.
That said, my disagreement is with a government forcing me or anyone else to pay for things other than defense or basic necessities. Individuals and privately owned businesses can do pay for whatever they want, however much I may find it distasteful.
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