Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8908112330.AA17962@uunet.uu.net> Date: 10 Aug 89 19:01:54 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 58 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: microsoft!brianw@uunet.uu.net To: uunet!rec-music-gaffa Path: microsoft!brianw From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Kate's cat food and record label Message-ID: <7348@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 22:30:52 GMT References: <762@argon.UUCP> Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 44 In article <762@argon.UUCP> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: argon!ebh@rutgers.edu (Ed Horch) > >Why oh why oh why did she have to sign with the sleaziest quantity- >before-quality record company in America??????? Did they offer her >*that* good a deal? (Those of you who think that signing with CBS >will necessarily mean better promotion of her music, remember how >much good that did Wendy Carlos. She finally ended up signing with >Larry Fast's Audion label.) > >-Ed I agree! I happen to be listening to a tape of HoL as I type (I don't have a turntable at work). I only played it once to tape it and it already sounds like it has years of wear on it. I still haven't switched to CD media yet because most of the artists I listen to are on labels like Private Music which have near-Japanese quality pressings. I'm waiting for DAT to settle down, so I don't have to waste any money on over-priced Read Only CD's. Is it true that there is legislation to prevent the sale of imported records? Like the Japanese pressings I understand are on virgin vinyl? It seems like job one of the record companies is to preserve their profits, and the actual quality of albums (and many of the CDs I have listened to as well) is like job null. They had rather reduce the quality of all CDs legally purchased, than allow a consumer to make a high quality (I hardly think an ANALOG copy of a CD onto DAT is HIGH quality) copy of their poor merchandise. I guess the want to prevent competition from overseas as well. > >The interested reader is directed to a discussion over in rec.food.veg >regarding what vegetarians feed their pets. The general consensus is >that it's ok to feed a dog a vegetarian diet, but not a cat. The >cat family is carnivorous; all cats *must* have meat in their diets. > Cats will go blind due to the lack of a certain hormone if they do not get meat (I forget the name) Brian Willoughby UUCP: ...!{tikal, sun, uunet, elwood}!microsoft!brianw InterNet: microsoft!brianw@uunet.UU.NET or: microsoft!brianw@Sun.COM Bitnet brianw@microsoft.UUCP