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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