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Re: Cynical People

From: brianb@natinst.com (Brian Bloom)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1991 13:27:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Cynical People
To: rec-music-gaffa@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
References: <m0kVKbc-00023uC@chinet.chi.il.us> <20540@scorn.sco.COM>


In article <20540@scorn.sco.COM> Dances With Voles <fscott!jondr@uunet.uu.net> writes:
 >Here's Drukman's Intro To Cynicism 101 Lecture (excerpts):
 >
 >Pick an artist, any artist.  Adore them beyond all belief.  Cherish the
 >albums that exist.  Find all the rarities.  Buy posters.  Adorn your clothes
 >with pins and badges.  Play your rare b-sides tape at inopportune moments to
 >people who don't care and explain in tedious detail why you included the
 >Special Remix which features four bars of the chorus edited out and tacked
 >on at the end.  When the next album comes out, proclaim it sophomoric drivel
 >and moan that things aren't the way they were in the old days.

Ouch!  This hits close to home! 8^)

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