Ramblin down the road

[Rob_Marsh@xxxxxxxxxxx]

You know, I can't buy this argument that if you own bootlegs from a group
that you need to own  everything that a artist has issued commercially.  If
they put out crap albums (or cds), I don't feel that I need to go buy it.
If I don't like it, I'm not buying it. Ya, I own all the Zeppelin stuff,
and Jimi, Janis, Stevie Ray and the Doors. But I'll be damned if I'm going
to go complete my Aerosmith catalog with the newer stuff just because I own
a few Aerosmith shows. Or the Rolling Stones for that matter, that would be
a lot of albums to buy, of stuff that ain't worth $14.99 or more.

Okay, some will say that the live recordings are taking money away from the
record companies, but on the other hand, I consider myself a huge Pink
Floyd fan, But I never owned anything before Darkside of the Moon but had
everything after it, even the new live Wall show. Just never got into the
era of music before  "Darkside", just too spacey.  Now that I'm collecting
Floyd "roios", I've been exposed to this music. I now consider that era of
Floyd to be one of my favorite.  If not for collecting live music, I
probably would have never been exposed to this music the way I have.  No
one I know listens to this older music.  Knowing what I do now, I've
started buying the early Floyd cds. In this case, these live recordings
actually helped the record companies.  Live recordings are like free
advertizing and keeps the music alive and kicking.

Just my $0.02 ,
Rob

P.S. And the tripe about live music not making any money, wouldn't  BBC
reaching double platinum make a little money for "the Company"?