Hey, Jim! I like your attitude...I guess we're both dreamers! Paula Crazed Cowboys > Otherwise why should the poor saps bother? P.S. The poor saps will always bother----it takes a lot to get a true musician to give it up! Of course, we always operate in the RED...hence the term DAY JOB.... on 12/20/02 4:45 PM, James Asherman at jimash at optonline.net wrote: > > Well I don't think that is a very good attitude. > With the radio the way it is and the high prices, the internet, ipods, > mp3's and Cd burners, perform the functions that freeform radio and > cheap cassettes did in previous times. One gets some music that one > wouldn't have bought otherwise and widens ones knowledge of what is > going on. It is a given that some people are just not going to buy no > matter what despite the quality. But it is hoped that if you hear > something you like, eventually you will pop for some goods. > Otherwise why should the poor saps bother? > Jim > > Mark E Hood wrote: >> >> On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 04:06 pm, Crazy Miz B of the Crazed >> Cowboys wrote: >> >>> >>> Of course---there are those who, like me--don't copy software either! >>> Time >>> will tell... >>> >> fight with all your might, but you (and RIAA) are losing this one. If >> they haven't already lost. I haven't bought a CD in three years. and >> my iPod is chock full. At $20 a pop, hopes are not high that i will >> change that any time soon. >> >> >> mark >>