In a message dated 10/28/2003 4:15:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, cobwebstrange@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > My point here is that we probably aren't going to like much of > what's on the radio these days (for supposedly open minded people, prog fans > > certainly seem to be closed minded about any new pop music), but I think > it's unfair for us to keep putting it down just because it isn't what we > like. A lot of people DO like it - just like we like the music that we > like. > Actually, I love "pop" music as in catchy songs with 3 or 4 chords in that Beatles/Kinks/Who/Big Star/Elvis Costello/R.E.M./Oasis/Blur/The Verve kind of way..catchy guitar based pop with singers who don't sound like cookie monster or some godawful mutant goat. However, I can't particularly bear "popular music" in that Star 94 vein, except that they do spin Coldplay sometimes. Anyway, my response is that since I buy CDs, lots of 'em, and that the people who are into the trendy radio stuff apparently aren't buying CDs then it's my ass that the music industry should be trying to kiss. There are lots of people, like me, in their late twenties and early thirties who grew up buying music and are perfectly happy to keep on buying music, but the music industry isn't marketing to us. CH