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Music Appreciation

highplainsdem

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1. Heard a lot about it at the time, knew some people who were on it, never bothered with it myself.

Reply to DBoon (Original post)

Mon May 19, 2025, 01:02 PM

May 19

Bowie was ahead of his time. But I vaguely remember him suggesting at one point, about the time BowieNet launched, that maybe artists should just give all their music away and simply rely on concerts and merch for income - and that struck me as an incredibly bad idea.

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Heard a lot about it at the time, knew some people who were on it, never bothered with it myself. highplainsdem May 19 #1