JSngry

You know what would be fun... Set up shop in Andorra, or Spain or wherever, and start selling copies of Fresh Sound, etc. reissues online, at cost. some colorful but cheapass generic packaging and documentation just to keep the cost waaaay down. Send out emailers to all possible outlets offering them the same deal. Total wholesale operation, no profit sought at all. Eat the postage, even, just to get the product out there. But before doing so, we'd need a line in Vegas on the over/under on when it would be before we had some "visitors"....

Definitely. Eight years is a long contract...he must have faith in the organization's plans, whatever they are.

The stuff in the hair, it is indeed there!

Leopards are nice!

Teeth Minus Two!

Black turtlenecks

Headwear!

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Capitol was fond of that orangey-pink-ish background in those days...

Looks like Matt Kemp & the Dodgers want to be together for eight years: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/report-matt-kemp-dodgers-in-serious-discussions-on-160-million-deal/ That seems like a long time for a quality player to be tied to a team whose ownership is still not stable. But maybe Kemp's got the faith.

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Well come on, flat top!

Thumbs up!

Are you asking him if he spends money he doesn't have to spend even if there's a "moral obligation" of some sort involved? I'm with you - that's just plain CRAZY! :tup :tup

But you'd not want to, because you'd have a contract with Roulette and a steady gig at Birdland with access to fairly chep dope. Might not be a big boat, but why rock it? Actually, Mingus did speak up albeit not as precisely in public...remember his "gangsters run jazz" comment? Hell, gangsters (of some form or fashion) run damn near everything. All praise be to gangsters, for they give us our lives!

Ok, really, this is what it comes down to. There is a school of thought that says "obey the law at all costs, even if it leads to less-than-ideal" outcomes. My dad was much like this. And then there's the school of thought that says "for the most part, the law is good, but when people use it do do things that are legal but not particularly ethical (much less "forthright"), then one might want to look around for alternatives". I am much like this myself. These two schools of thought really have no common ground, and although both have historically resulted in good and bad being done, neither can claim exclusivity of absolute moral correctness. The "laws" in question are not grounded in some moral absolute, and the manner of product resulting from these laws certainly reflects that. Point being - there is no resolvable end to this debate. I find the absolutist arguments and the justifications just as dryly soulless and logistically idiotic as I'm sure they find mine to be exactly the same. So, I know I'm right and that you're wrong. And you know that you're right and I'm wrong. If there's any place to go beyond that, write me a letter and I'll wish you good weather while you're there.

Beehive (on Estelle)!

And they're counting ten downloads of the same song as an album, more or less? And they're talking about how Spotify and such is helping to sell music by giving it away. It's a world gone mad!

You can indeed. And if your choice is between there and paying for Pujols xeroxes, you're a chump if you pay. If not a chump, then at least a "good lad". (EDIT to add "in my opinion". Must remain civil at all times!) If you have some innate...inbred compulsion to "follow the rules" at all times, then...your choice. Follow your bliss, wherever you've been told it should lead. (Whatever happened to that Empire, anyway? Oh yeah, people got tired of following rules that didn't make sense for them, especially when it came to their resources. Good to see a few diehard loyalists, though!) ASCAP "explains the law" in such a way that the kid who gets his Lady Gaga for free will now pay 99 cents for it. Period. Again, are you serious? God, I hope not... File under "Knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing". Uh, yeah. Only, one guy is more than happy to take your money for bullshit and one guy is telling you to save it for something better. Exactly Identical, yeah. You'll never get "the real story" . And you'd never get it even if you did. But I will tell you this - I do not do "file-sharing". Your use of the term - which is descriptive of a very precise technology - suggests that you think you know more than you do. But that much has already been made obvious.

Volcano!

Female trumpet player!