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From: gumby@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: well, excuuuse me!
Message-ID: <1232@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 04:15:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 04:15:17 1984
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In-reply-to: The message of 24 Jan 84 14:55-EST from rlr at pyuxn.UUCP

    Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 14:55:44 EST
    From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP

    I, for one, believe that creative artists have a responsibility to
    expand the boundaries of their craft rather than pandering to tastes and
    to the money that that brings.

That's right!  Better to starve and be unknown, then to aquire the taint
of *gasp* financial success.  As a matter of fact, we should be taking
the money AWAY from artists like Eno or Rampal, lest their music be
corrupted by the evil money.

*** BULLSHIT ***

Why do they have this responsibility?  And to whom?  I guess
Michelangelo shouldn't have painted the Sistine Chapel -- after all,
religious paintings had already been painted by others!

Pissed off,

david

PS:  -- ad-homonim attack follows --

I thought we had agreed that this sort of pseudo-intellectual
putting-down of other people's tastes was stupid.  I just have one
question:  Where do you fit?  Either you're an uncreative dolt, or
you're violating your own rule.  Why aren't you busy advancing the
borders of computer science?