Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!think!mintaka!wonko!mit-eddie!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Special Notice Message-ID: <8909151405.AA28854@athos.rutgers.edu> Date: 15 Sep 89 14:05:33 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 41 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: koeppel@aramis.rutgers.edu In article <1098@uowcsa.cs.uow.oz> Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: > Really-From: munnari!uowcsa.oz.au!u8530671%uowcsa.cs.uow.oz.OZ@uunet.UU.NET (Scunge) > > In article <8909130519.AA04156@GAFFA.MIT.EDU>, IED writes: > > When the new single, _Love_and_Anger_, comes out on CBS Alternatives > > Records on October 1, EVERYBODY PLEASE GO OUT AND _BUY_10_COPIES_ of it > > immediately! > Bad idea, guys. For a start, buying 10 copies each, you are, > in a sense, lying to the record producers and Kate about the popularity > of her albumn. One person liking it a lot isn't the same as ten people > liking it a fair bit. > > Secondly, if the plan did work and they decided that Kate would > do a tour, it might be a financial flop because only a tenth of the people > they expected would turn up. > > Mark "Scunge" Wann > u8530671@uowcsa Well, not really. There are at _least_ twenty people I know, really, many more than that, who would go to see Kate if she came here. However, I think there are only three or so of us, who would buy the single. So if we each buy a bunch of copies, it works out about evenly. I know a lot of people who will go to see Kate, just because they know people (me, for one) who practically worship her. I know my whole family will go, all of my best friends, and even some not-as-good friends that i can comvince to see her in concert. But not even one-tenth of them would go out and buy the single. So I don't think we're fooling anybody. jessica