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Listed below are comments made by MikeVonDoom between Friday, 26th June 2009 and Tuesday, 14th July 2009.

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Stephen Fry on copyright 5:12pm on 14 Jul 2009 A downloaded MP3 is not the same as a song on a CD, it's a mere approximation. I'd happily pay for lossless downloads, including cover artwork, lyrics, etc. And for these downloads to NOT be encased in any software which prevents me listening to what I've paid for. There's the matter of taste, also; I prefer quite obscure, underground, independant music to the mainstream slop, but download stores cater almost exclusively to the vapid mainstream dreck.

I happily own up to downloading loads of music. Most of which I have on vinyl and refuse to repurchase on CD, or obscure out-of-print titles.
I barely have room for more physical copies of recorded music, because I spent my life giving my money to independant records shops.

One solution is to follow what mine and my friends' bands do - give your music away. I've played in bands and recorded loads of music on my own(albeit of limited commercial appeal, but quite similar to other bands who manage sales into the thousands) and have never made a penny from any of it, even when we've paid to press vinyl records, I've given away all of my copies for free.
Pay the bills with.... a job! It's not difficult.
Sayonara Swells 2:48pm on 26 Jun 2009 Swells was definitely the last music journalist who was as interesting, and whose writing was as exciting, as the bands he was writing about (sometimes more so!). I didn't always agree with him, I doubt anyone did; but from directing the "Little Baby Nothing" video for the Manics, to constantly singing the praises of Napalm Death, I seriously doubt that British music journalism will see his like again. The current crop of NME journos seem as asinine and vapid as the current "indie" music bands.
I read a few of his online articles at PW, documenting his battle with cancer and the American health system, and the same spark of intelligence + bile was still there to the end.
Sod Michael Jackson, I know who I'll be mourning today.

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