(TV) New Verlaine CDs

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <20060324172442.18669.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com>, grntg 
<grntg@yahoo.com> writes
> Philosophical meandering:  If it is amoral to buy off e-bay as Verlaine 
> gets no royalties, is it amoral to win a contest in which Verlaine will 
> be billed for the five cd's?

Well, as far as the record company is concerned, anything I get out of 
them for prizes will come under the heading of "Marketing" or "Promo" 
so, if you look at it that way, better that some of us get them than 
they get sent out to some newspaper reviewer who couldn't care less 
about Tom Verlaine.

(I contacted one of the sellers on Ebay and asked where she got it from 
and the answer was something like, "Well, I once wrote something for a 
magazine so my name is on a list of 'music journalists' somewhere even 
though I'm not one, so it arrived in the post and...")

--
-----------------------------------------------
http://www.marquee.demon.co.uk
"The Wonder - Tom Verlaine, Television & Stuff"
-----------------------------------------------
--------------
To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"