http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:44:47 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/10/10/145236.php#comment-1397 Well, no, I wouldn't. But I think you meant that as a joke, so I'll take it as such. Where do you live, anyway? This reminds me, though, of the vast difference between Houston and Austin, two cities that occupy the same narrow stretch of coastal plain, but are culturally at odds with one another. I remember bringing a small stack of CDs (about 7 or 8) to the hippest indie CD store in the city, Soundwaves. They were considered good CDs circa 1998, and in perfect condition. They accepted three of them, and offered me $7 for the lot. No thanks. A week later, at Waterloo records in Austin, I got $27 for the same stack. Yes, I'll take that, thank you. Of course the difference is salability, pure and simple. In Houston, even in the hippest college neighborhood it has to offer, nobody would pay ten cents for my least favorite Palace Brothers album. In Austin, seven dollars, easy. On a bad day. Some people, even some people I like and respect, think Houston is great. But my experience in the record stores there tells me everything I need to know about it. Of course, if my mainstay was vinyl hip-hop, this would be a different discussion entirely... 1397@blogcritics.org Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:44:47 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/10/10/145236.php#comment-1396 Your guess is spot on. What we don't have in live music, restaurants, galleries, radio stations, book stores and clothes shopping, we make up for in good cheap CDs. A fair trade, wouldn't you say? 1396@blogcritics.org Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:26:17 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/10/10/145236.php#comment-1395 You found those recors for $4? I'm amazed. I can only guess that you don't live in a very music-intensive town, so the market value of good music is naturally lower. Here in Austin, the only thing you can buy for $4 is scratched MC Shan singles. 1395@blogcritics.org Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:08:31 EDT