http://www.blueblood.net/2008/11/about-last-night/ Counterculture Lifestyle Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:11:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.blueblood.net/2008/11/about-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Blue Blood Magazine Gothic Punk Deathrock Fandom News Photos Forum » True Confessions and a Bottle of Rum Rock Me Like a Hurricane Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:46:43 +0000 http://www.blueblood.net/2008/11/about-last-night/#comment-356 [...] I have a confession to make. You probably know I’m opposed to piracy. I’m especially opposed to the kind of modern large scale digital piracy which makes it pretty much impossible to make a living as a midlist band. The internet is great for giving nowhere bands a shot and it rules for creating record-breaking manufactured pop and blanketing the world with it. But it is a polarizing medium and, in the faint spotlight of the computer monitor glow, midlist bands have either rocketed to wild success or more frequently withered on the vine. [...] [...] I have a confession to make. You probably know I’m opposed to piracy. I’m especially opposed to the kind of modern large scale digital piracy which makes it pretty much impossible to make a living as a midlist band. The internet is great for giving nowhere bands a shot and it rules for creating record-breaking manufactured pop and blanketing the world with it. But it is a polarizing medium and, in the faint spotlight of the computer monitor glow, midlist bands have either rocketed to wild success or more frequently withered on the vine. [...]

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