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Re: Why TRS Is Not A Success

From: wolff@chaos.berkeley.edu (Hew Wolff)
Date: 18 Feb 1994 22:40:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Why TRS Is Not A Success
To: rec-music-gaffa@agate.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
References: <Pine.3.05.9402161732.A18118-c100000@atlas.cs.upei.ca> <29722.9402170504@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

In article <29722.9402170504@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
 <rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> wrote:
[in response to somebody I deleted accidentally]
>No flame, but I'm at a total loss as to why you think it should matter
>how TRS behaved in the charts. Most everything I listen to regularly
>has never been anywhere near the charts, by those standards TRS is a
>blazing commercial success. Stayed in the UK charts long enough and
>high enough to be down right embarassing to buy.

    Hear, hear. I personally do not lose any sleep over how to
popularize the music I'm into (beyond playing it to my friends). If
it's successful enough that I can get hold of a copy of it, that's
enough for me.
    (Although I admit to loving Morrissey and the Cure. :-) )