Turnaround's intro as a long time reader, but new poster IMHO, means they could easily be someone up in the music food chain that wants to remain anonymous. Brian has often talked about people here that are famous even, but love being anonymous here so as to feel like a "just plain" person...probably unlike their public life...

The content of his/her post doesn't suggest someone who is here to "mess" with anyone. Just someone's take on this issue, and I am OK with it. I am glad someone who is here reading alot, finally decided to post.

I am not sure what to think of the issue at hand, and when that happens, I usually take Brian's view and compare other opinions to see if they stand up to his scrutiny. What he says makes sense...BUT it might just be that
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Originally Posted By: Bill Robinson
I am not a small fish in a big pond, I am a speck of sand in the bottom of the big lake.
I wonder how anyone can sell anything with so much free music out there.
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and there will probably NEVER be anything I (as someone who works a regular full time job) can do about it. I just have to do my music because I love it and it fills my heart and expect nothing back from it...

As a mortgage broker though, I can't feel that bad for you music people trying to make a buck and struggling...join the club...every day I talk to people that are screwed up and going under ( me too )...and it's not just the big bad industry people that got them (well partially)...they did what seemed like the right thing to do at the time...they didn't know the real estate market would crash...it will emerge completely different at the end of this problem...and so will the music industry...I guess I am just trying to say that there are MANY many industries in trouble and morphing into something new. Don't feel alone... and us little people have very little say in any of it...It's the money that controls things, that's just the way it is, and this myspace deal will likely play out the way Brian is reading it because of that.


Herbie
JPF Chicago Chapter Coordinator
http://www.herbietunes.com