Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
"sue-the-customer"

If they're not paying for the music, they're not customers.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If they're not paying for the music, they're not customers.

Amen.

The correct response to overpricing is to not purchase. If BMWs are too high, I don't steal one from the dealer - I buy something else. If I have to buy seven Neons in order to get one Corvette, I forego the Corvette. This idea that there is some moral justification for ripping off music just because we can is absurd.

(P.S. I do it too. I don't have any defense for myself in doing so. But, I just know it ain't right.)

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If they're not paying for the music, they're not customers.

Sorry. When I solicited people's thoughts on this, I probably should have specified that Timmys Need Not Respond.



Edited to add: Timmy!!!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Sorry. When I solicited people's thoughts on this, I probably should have specified that Timmys Need Not Respond.

There was more to the post than timmism (thank you for getting it Bilmore; I now don't have to go into a paigowesque diatribe explaining how my comment was too smart for all the FB commoners). I'm not troubled by stores prosecuting shoplifters, even though they could be "customers." I don't see a significant difference between that and pursuing purveyors of "free" music.

Or were you looking for a good argument to justify your collection of 4000 mp3s that you downloaded for free?

edited to add parenthetical

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
For the love of Mike, if you are going to participate PAY ATTENTION. Her grandma is fat like the goodyear blimp, and her grandpa is impotent. I believe that grandpa may also be fat but I'm not positive.

For the love of Pete! The two (or three or four) are not mutually exclusive. I'm starting to believe you never even met her fucked up grandparents.

TM

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Feel free to defend. The fun is in watching you get upset over it, dumbass. And I guarantee, the more of an issue you make it, the more of an FBism it will become. Your dirty, skanky grandma and half-witted grandpa are already FB punch lines, so good luck.

Thurgreed(although now it sounds to me like you just want the attention)Marshall

Hmm, good point. Now I know what FB really stands for.

[W.W.L.D.]

Originally posted by bilmore
(P.S. I do it too. I don't have any defense for myself in doing so. But, I just know it ain't right.)

Dear RIAA,

You didn't give me a subpoena, and my good Christian conscience can't let this go unnoticed, but over the last few months I have downloaded approximatley 110 copywritten songs from Kazaa Lite. Among them are an acoustic version of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn," Queen's "Somebody to Love," and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." I know this has hurt the earnings of all artist's involved, damaged the monthly sales of Tower Records, and undercut the integrity of the music industy as a whole. For this I am sorry. Please throw me in jail before I kill again.

Sincerely,

bilmore

P.S.
Oh...I also downloaded "Magic Stick" by Lil' Kim featuring 50 Cent. I'm sorry for that, too.


(I even stole the text of this letter)

[bilmore]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Hmm, good point. Now I know what FB really stands for.

"Frequently Bipolar".

[bilmore]

Originally posted by W.W.L.D.
Dear RIAA,

You didn't give me a subpoena, and my good Christian conscience can't let this go unnoticed, but over the last few months I have downloaded approximatley 110 copywritten songs from Kazaa Lite. Among them are an acoustic version of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn," Queen's "Somebody to Love," and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." I know this has hurt the earnings of all artist's involved, damaged the monthly sales of Tower Records, and undercut the integrity of the music industy as a whole. For this I am sorry. Please throw me in jail before I kill again.

Sincerely,

bilmore

P.S.
Oh...I also downloaded "Magic Stick" by Lil' Kim featuring 50 Cent. I'm sorry for that, too.


(I even stole the text of this letter)

The only truly offensive part of your post lies in labeling my conscience "christian".

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bilmore
"Frequently Bipolar".

For FB, yes, but for fb, it's f(ucking)b(itch). Now that I'm ltl/fb it could be (That l)it(tl)e/f(ucking)b(itch), except, we might be wanting to insult me for being fat and then the "little" would be a misnomer.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by W.W.L.D.
Dear RIAA,

You didn't give me a subpoena, and my good Christian conscience can't let this go unnoticed, but over the last few months I have downloaded approximatley 110 copywritten songs from Kazaa Lite. Among them are an acoustic version of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn," Queen's "Somebody to Love," and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." I know this has hurt the earnings of all artist's involved, damaged the monthly sales of Tower Records, and undercut the integrity of the music industy as a whole. For this I am sorry. Please throw me in jail before I kill again.

Sincerely,

bilmore

P.S.
Oh...I also downloaded "Magic Stick" by Lil' Kim featuring 50 Cent. I'm sorry for that, too.


(I even stole the text of this letter)

That's ok. Plagiarism is in.

[mr. bob dobolina]

Originally posted by purse junkie
does he repulse me more than Jack Nicholson" test, Mick Jagger doesn't fare so well anyhow.

Is it just me or is he looking more and more like Don Knotts with each passing year.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
Amen.

The correct response to overpricing is to not purchase. If BMWs are too high, I don't steal one from the dealer - I buy something else. If I have to buy seven Neons in order to get one Corvette, I forego the Corvette. This idea that there is some moral justification for ripping off music just because we can is absurd.

(P.S. I do it too. I don't have any defense for myself in doing so. But, I just know it ain't right.)

Apropos of this, Corvettes are the apex of white trashness (white trashocity?)

"I'm fine-ly movin' up from ma Firebird, Cletus!"

Edited to add that I would, however, pay good money for the Trans Am Billy Madison drives. But I would have to be wearing his REO Speedwagon 3/4 length t-shirt while driving it.

Seriously, I want that Speedwagon shirt.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Get me a white suit and a shaved cat, and I'm all set.

While there are several on the FB who would gladly provide you with the Brazilian Persian, we cannot in good conscience let you wear a white suit. WAAAAAAY too International Male for you.



Whatever happened to TIM, anyway?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
There was more to the post than timmism (thank you for getting it Bilmore; I now don't have to go into a paigowesque diatribe explaining how my comment was too smart for all the FB commoners). I'm not troubled by stores prosecuting shoplifters, even though they could be "customers." I don't see a significant difference between that and pursuing purveyors of "free" music.

Or were you looking for a good argument to justify your collection of 4000 mp3s that you downloaded for free?

Geez, next time I'll add a smiley-face so you (and Paigow) understand that I'm responding to a joke with a joke.

I agree with your shoplifter comparison. I guess I'm just at a loss to understand why people seem to find it so shocking that the RIAA might want to enforce the rights of music copyright holders -- even to the point of suing consumers, as a last resort. I s'pose a board of lawyers is not the best place to gain an understanding of what the people complaining about this are thinking.