Fwd: Re: Sixties and Oldies
RICHARD ROMEO
RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org
Fri Feb 9 13:59:00 CST 1996
Ah, but you see, the number of people who have large CD collections is
much
greater than the number of people who have (had) large vinyl collections.
For what ever reason, the CD has endeared people more to music. More
people buy CD's than purchased vinyl. Also, with the improved sound
quality (I know, I too think vinyl sounds better, but for the average
listener...) of CDs, people are buying vast quantities of older music
because those recordings can be digitally cleaned up. Also, the ease of
care that CDs offer makes them more appealing to many people.
Ethan
Ethan-
1. How do you know people have larger CD collections?
2. I don't believe records sound better-unless you have a very expensive
audio set. For us poor epicures CD's enhance the power of my small
stereo. I do miss my record collection though and if I had to do it
again I wouldn't have sold them.
A question for the group:
I recall Donald Fagan saying that we are now living in the "post-ironic
stage"-my question is where do true ironists(?) like TRP go from here?
Seems like much of his ouevre has been co-opted, saturating the airwaves-
where now we have the yin-yang depicted by tobacco companies which I saw
on matchbooks recently, e.g.
Irony is tending toward the mean. When irony is discredited as it is
today how does it recapture its "edge"? Is there no message left to
lose? Do we then become (or only can become) Wm. Gass' Herr Kohler
digging tunnels hating hate hating, even the humorous Culp, writing
limericks, shitting on history, feeling pure since hate is the only pure
thing left. I like Gass' book since the subject is direct unlike what
passes for "bullshit rebellion" nowadays. I have bought Infinite Jest
and hope it doesn't fall into the Barthelme, Barth, Eco crowd-you know
books with much wit but as heartless and flat as life today.
Rich
NYC
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