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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Good and bad music
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 21:48:55 EDT
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Seth Jackson sez:
If you say that music is bad, you are saying that it has no value.
If something has no value, than nobody would give something of value
to obtain it. Funny thing, though...an awful lot of people are 
exchanging something of value, namely money, to buy records that
you would call bad. In fact, more people place value on 'bad' 
music than music that is 'good' by your standards. There must be
something in that music that all these people find valuable, eh?
----


This assumes that people always do whats best for  them on a rational basis.  But we all know
how people frequently do things for IRRATIONAL reasons.  Lemmings
are like that too :-).  

For instance, if you hear a song enough times on the radio; there may be mechanisms
in your brain which makes you "lock onto" it, simply because it is familiar,
regardless of how uninteresting it is,
thus causing you to want to hear it again.


People also may buy music because they think it is "cool" to do so.
So the music may have "value" to them, but it is not valuable "as music",
rather as status enhancer.
-- 
larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)

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