Hey Hey,

You won't want to know this but the bullshit that illegal downloads are destroying music shops is just that, bullshit. I know this cos my band manager own's music shop ( Dave's Basement Records 262A Onehunga Mall, Onehunga, Auckland ) is also closing down shop this december and the single reason why he's completely closing down shop isn't because of bad business practice and isn't because people are theifing their music off the net, it's simply because kids don't know music anymore. The idea that illegal downloads are destroying the music industry makes no sense when you realise that's what they said about all radio stations eighty years ago in the twenties !!! They made out that if people can listen to their favourite records on the radio they won't feel the need to buy them, which is the same argument they have now in the naughties, that if people can download their favourite records off the net, they won't feel the need to buy them. What these people forget is that this is how people get to hear their favourite records first, the only difference is that radio has died. That's why kids have turn to the net to hear their music. Radio stations like The Rock Fm, there's nothing rock'n'roll about them. They're totally corporate, they've done research they have there target markets, meeting people is easy, its bullshit. Kids know this. That's why they turned off and why to most kids, music is incomprensible or percieved to be crap. I know this because I use to work at Rock Fm (When I was 20) and why I now own my own radio station (The Shit 88Fm starting this Summer 2008). Where else are you gonna hear bands like Ac/dc, T-Rex, Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Lenny Kravitz, Kiss ?!? Not on radio because these guys are still sticking to playing the same eighty tracks every time ( Ac/Dc You Shook Me All Night Long, T-Rex 20th Century Boy, Hendrix Voodoo Chille, Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town, Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way, Kiss ( Disco Kiss Aghhhh !!! ) I Was Made For Loving You ) That why they are on the net illegally downloading alot there music is because that's the only place they will get chance to hear it ! Again thanks to radio and corporate advances, music is now to most ten, twenty year olds, incomprensible or percieved to be crap and that's why kids don't know music anymore and why I almost have to explain to almost every musician I know what a Rory Gallagher is because the supposed Rock Fm doesn't even play him or hell even not nearly enough Noel or Liam Gallagher and those guys sold over 50 Million records worldwide !!! It's so wrong ! That and breaking it down because kids don't hear enough different enough music on the radio they don't see the difference between alot music and that's what's stopping them buying music like in malls, like in Sounds and Ecm even Jb-Hi-Fi. That's why to me everything in music has gone from good to worse to dinosaur level extinction...

Uh-Huh,

Heaven forbid a shop would refuse to stock Audioslave ! Is that suppose to be joke cos I'm not laughing ! It's serious thing when any shop refuses to sell any cd cos Jesus tells them it's good idea ! And it's not just Audioslave that they don't have, Ryan Adams, Lambchop, Nixon, Whiskytown, Gorillaz, there's alot student music they don't sell there and that's not good ! Would Wall-Mart think about selling something that some may not like but many others would buy ?!? Does Wall-Mart think they should leave it to the consumer to dictate spending decisions ?!? Hell No, that would be something Christ would do !!! Don't know about you guys, but yeah this is just one better than average example of how corporate america dicks with the common american, sacrificing choice for comfort. It's crap...

shops should refuse to sell anything that morally causes them problems
we as consumers or punters should then take this information as a reference to where we wish to consume.

sacrificing choice for comfort...or, ensuring the one party state continues to be the only voice heard. Clearly Audioslave's membership could cause Political offense to an institution such as Wal-Mart

jokes
sort of
it was more at AC...he's mad for Audioslave

Uh No, No, They Shouldn't Dude,

It's like this, Wallmart is the Warehouse. The Warehouse ( and I don't know they are aware of this or not ) has killed off alot small music shops with being able to cost cut alot new cds. Alot guys who use to get their cds, use to get them at these small music shops cos they didn't care paying $32.95 that's what they cost everywhere and for alot small music shops that stopped selling most of there old music cos who the hell knows music now, they were totally, totally, relliant on selling alot these new cds to make up for the fact they weren't selling a thing. This is how it was when I was twenty helping out cd places around Auckland. Now it is like this where it's not just Warehouse selling cds at ridiculously cheap prices it now supermarkets, petrol stations, who thanks to their super massive size themselves are able to get cds in at much lower price than small, tiny, and insignificant cd shops could. That's not cool, cos now alot these places who are all about the money not the music are now responsible for getting people into loads and loads of different music and I don't see that happening if the Warehouse does Wallmart thing and stops selling music alot people really like.

In the end ( and here's my final point ) what if the few record shops I worked at ( Real Groovy, Dj Records, Dave's Basement Records ) like you suggested, refuse to sell records that caused us huge moral anguish ? Have you got any Hannah Montana ? Nah ! Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams ? Nope ! Stevie Wonder's Secret Life Of Plants ? The Pointer Sisters ? Patsy Riggar ? Captain And Tenille ? I Love The Nolans, You Know Them ? Boney M ? Kenny G ? Kenny Rogers ? Ok, take you and your weak inexcusable pathetic attempt at full and healthy life the hell away from my store ! Shit no it wouldn't work and you'll only fully end up looking like fucking dick and this is what dudes at Wallmart are doing, not doing the right thing, selling music only themselves like ! They look dicks ! They're making music look like total tool and that's not good dude, not when it's just bad attitude and jesus humping admiration that's ruining music for most americans. That and hey why does Wallmart stop at music and not other things like tenth grade science books that state man is made out of monkeys and the surface to weight ratio is insufficent for Jesus to walk on water and let Luke the Disciple fish off his shoulders all at the same time ? I don't know what it is with alot places, all I know is in place like america, when comes down to choices, decisions and letting other people decide things for you, it should be like what french phillospher Voltaire said " that I may not agree with your opinion but I will defend your right in saying it ! " That's what I've been talking about...

another 6 stores shut down last week my Beautiful Wife tells me
is there any left?