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Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Young, Dumb, and Full of BeerWhat would you get if Gordon Gano was best friends with Tom Petty and lived in Alabama? What would appear if booze, Lynyrd Skynyrd, gravelly vocals, and tambourines were spliced together in a rock and roll Petri dish? ...
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Warren Zevon - The Wind
Zevon Swan SongOn September 7th, Warren Zevon passed away after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer only a year before, cutting short his 34-year career as a singer/songwriter. During the last year of his life, Zevon accepted his fate and did...
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An Editorial Response Page 6
Please do not misjudge me, I do not promote stealing money from hard-working music and entertainment professionals, nor do I deny that file sharing is "wrong" in the moral and legal senses of the word. I do not condone it in certain circumstances,...
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I have known many downloaders who claim that if they want to buy an album, they will download it first to see for themselves if they truly like it. After all, why spend money on something that they won't use or enjoy? If the album is deemed worthy,...
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An Editorial Response Page 4
When you speak of poor artists such as Loretta Lynn from Butcher Holler sharing their gifts with the world, you assume that only the wealthy would be able to survive this supposed strain that file sharing puts on their income. In past decades this...
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An Editorial Response Page 3
Your article also mentions that if our world catered only to the rich and government-sponsored, art would eventually disintegrate. But if you hadn't noticed, the world the RIAA wishes to maintain does exactly that - cater to the rich. File sharing...
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For true "artists," by your definition of the term, who actually write and perform their own music, their copyrights and royalties are not protected by the RIAA. The Recording Industry Association of America is an association to protect the...
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An Editorial Response
An Editorial Response to an Article By Marci A. Hamilton Why Suing College Students for Illegal Music Downloading Is the Right Thing To Do - CNN.com, FindLaw.com. Ms. Hamilton, I appreciated your article from last month entitled "Why Suing...
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