Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Pay me to tag your shop, it's still antibusiness.
I'm going to say no, it's not. Just a "new" idea in capitalism. There's plenty of corporate organisations that use anti-corporate messages to sell their products. Still selling shit.
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The issue is whether or not you are comfortable with Steve Jobs deciding he is king of the world.
If I was king of the world, I'd want it to be more powerful than able to declare "flash is dead", and then have three quarters of the world ignore me. Just saying.
There is always going to be a niche for the collectors, the chin strokers and the true believers, but for most consumers of music the album, the music store and vinyl have gone the way of the Yangtze River dolphin.
I like how you mix insults with broad statements based on no information.
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Well, I waited a day, but hey, you must have expected it, right?
It's these sorts of things that restore your faith in humanity.
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No one buys albums anymore.
I still (almost exclusively) buy albums. Even if I buy digitally (which I don't much at all) I prefer to buy a whole album and play it as such. Threw out an old taped copy recently and bought Tricky's Maxinquaye in full digitally. I find that just tracks in no particular order lack structure and I don't know what's coming up next.
Old fashioned and all that.
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There's nothing wrong with good wallpaper, unless it is pretending to be a painting. Know what I mean?. Selling us garbage like Lady Gah Gah (sic) does a disservice to music.
I don't believe you're obligated to buy it, or listen to radio stations that are playing it, etc.
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FWIW, citing Banksy -- whose works have sold for as much as half a million $US each -- doesn't seem that useful in responding to what Islander says. He's wealthy, successful and he gets to travel. It's not like he has to get a job so he can afford to eat.
That's a pretty good antibusiness gig he's got going there.
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Two! Four! Six! Eight! Rodney's crimes are very great!
Great meaning large or immense! We mean it in the pejorative sense!
Where were you in the mid-90s when I was trying to make up protest chants for students?
(My favourite: "One, two, three and a bit! Lockwood Smith is full of..." It's what you don't say that counts).
To my mind, this makes him at least fascist in tendency
"Rodney Hide is tending towards being a Fascist! Down with people who are a bit like Berlusconi!" Nope, still not doing it for me.
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Otherwise perhaps a little simmering down until he (they) start actually running a single party state, espousing Darwinian Elitism or enrolling Rangitoto College students for rallies down Queen Street in jack boots.
Danielle, finally our time in the sun!
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To be fair, there are some mild echoes.
Hey you one-tenth-of-the-way-to-being-kinda-but-also-kinda-not-necessarily fascist!
Not a very good protest chant is it.
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Actually, I just checked the listings, and the final is on Thursday, only half a day after the US. Good effort, TVNZ.
Final in the US was on Monday our time - their Sunday - I think. I banned some of my facebook friends from mentioning it. So far so good.
Our final is on Saturday evening. 9.30 - midnight.