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Originally Posted by Old Joysey
...(T)he WTC guys...altered the plan... and everybody's complaining just the same. Hmmm...well, not exactly, only their fans, the rest of the world just doesn't care.
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The key word being "everybody" -- everybody in their
fan base, if not everybody in the world.
It didn't occur to Wu Tang that their
non-uber rich fans wouldn't take kindly to this? They're part of a musical genre in which "street credibility" is mandatory: it didn't occur to them that their plan would add an entirely new dimension to the meaning of "corporate sellout?" And even if Jesus Christ himself had been the purchaser, there would
still remain the question of whether it's seemly to sell
or buy one copy of one album and deprive "everybody" else of it for 88 years!
It renders Wu Tang's calls for "urgent debates about the future of music" as ringing a little hollow. Yes, they ended up two million dollars richer -- but, as they found out, at way too high a price.