Re: + CDr Trades +

From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2001 - 13:56:09 CET

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    i agree totally

    Olaf

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Leslie N. Shill <icehouse@redshift.com>
    To: Pedro Cevallos <pedro_cevallos@hotmail.com>
    Cc: acid <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 9:27 PM
    Subject: Re: + CDr Trades +

    > Pedro,
    >
    > thanks for the offer to trade and perhaps there might be an opportunity
    for
    > us to do so in the future but i have to tell you that i have some
    difficulty
    > with what you are doing from a personal standpoint. With no criticism of
    > you, your conscience is your own guide in these matters, it is important
    to
    > me to support as many artists as i can by actually buying their discs. By
    > buying the discs i am making my own small contribution to the well-being
    of
    > the artists, independent music and to the creative process, i think that
    is
    > more important than the ultimate size and scope of my own personal
    > collection of discs. My idea is that the listees on this list are probably
    > in the forefront of appreciation and recognition that the creators of AJ
    and
    > it's related sounds can count on besides their own immediate circles. The
    > fact that you seem to want almost the entire catalogue of Instinct to
    trade
    > is a little disturbing to me, what do you not want to trade? what are the
    > last ten discs that you actually paid for in cash? i am only too happy to
    > trade discs that are very hard to find or out of print but the readily
    > available stuff does not fall into that category. A number of people have
    > asked me to burn the Troublemakers cd for them and i have obliged just a
    > couple of those folks because the disc is not yet released and i think it
    > deserves to be heard but all-in-all, i would far prefer to see the artists
    > get the support in the commercial world than i would like to see them as
    the
    > most-traded and collectable artists who now cannot afford to record their
    > next release!
    >
    > just my own personal opinion, i doubt that it would slow down your trading
    > activities but i hope that it does give you a pause for thought about this
    > acitivity of yours
    >
    > leslie/The Power of Sound
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Pedro Cevallos <pedro_cevallos@hotmail.com>
    > To: <icehouse@redshift.com>
    > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 3:52 PM
    > Subject: Re: + CDr Trades +
    >
    >
    > > >just as a matter of interest, do you get ALL your music by trading
    > >CDr's?
    > > >I understand getting the occasional hard-to-find CDr and trying >to get
    > new
    > > >stuff early that way if there is no availability but it >seems to me
    that
    > > >you are trying to build an entire collection via >trading, do you buy
    ANY
    > > >of your discs?
    > >
    > >
    > > I spend close to $250/month on music (vinyl and CDs). I trade in order
    to
    > > maximize my collection. Wanna trade?
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > Pedro Cevallos
    > > --
    > > "...beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into
    > > time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the
    process,
    > > we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a
    world
    > > made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded."
    > > -- Neil Postman --
    > > http://www.geocities.com/mr_cevallos/
    > >
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