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Looking for Romney to do something Clinton-esque. I think the problem with that hope is that he is in deep, like up to his neck with the mega-corporations. A lot of the new regulation is to keep tycoons from casting bets with your mortgage and then needing us to bail them out. Also, I believe the taxes were on the average higher in that period then they are now.

Thanks for biting (looking at your dog picture). Can you think of a succinct explanation for why you will vote for Romney?

Can I clarify something with two questions (for any who care to answer): 1. Are you passionate about Mitt Romney? 2. Do you think you will vote for him?

Great night, let's see what I can add here.... First time seeing Dr. Dog with their newer drummer, sounded fantastic in spite of a mediocre sound mix. I thought their auxillary percussionist seemed extraneous. Unusually good energy and crowd response for an opener. I wasn't the only one singing along. Wilco was in top form. ALTWYS gave me butterflies. I know some people aren't wild about it but Capitol City brought a grin to my face, I didn't notice the bell sample had malfunctioned 'til Tweedy said so. I wonder what the Twitter war he had in mind was when he was bantering on the intro to

Anybody know what time they open the doors tonight? The tickets just say 8:00, but knowing Red Rocks I'm assuming that's when Dr. Dog goes on.

It's weird that he talks in the interview over an over about how the Smashing Pumpkins needed to die, and he needed to stop trying to play with Jimmy. Why didn't he just give this band a new name then? The other weird thing is this album is called Oceania, while this larger than life stoner rock band called Isis had an album called Oceanic, Oceania has a song called "Panopticon", and Isis had an album called Panopticon. I wonder......

Exactly, and the use of Executive Privilege by Obama is no more shocking than a bureaucratic blockade by the Senate. At some point legislation went from checks and balances to blocks and tricks.

How is use of executive privilege in this case unconstitutional?

I love all the King Crimson stuff in this thread, but I'm shocked no one said In the Court of the Crimson King. That is my favorite prog album, hands down.

Does anyone know which section the early Wilco website presale tickets were? I know my buddy used it to get us GA tickets, but Red Rocks always has really convoluted seating sections. And I am also stoked, psyched, pumped, chuffed etc.

Wouldn't your belief that it would be pandering confirm how massive the demographic is? Therefore, shouldn't something be done? Also, Obama's executive order would not grant citizenship, just a new kind of work permit/ Visa. This country wouldn't be what it is today without cheap immigrant labor. We might as well show some folks respect, I say.

In fairness, you opened your heart and he called you uncharacteristically not flippant. Oh, hey look, Obama is trying to help out some illegal immigrants. Republicans are pissed about it. Hmmmm....

This analogy doesn't work because number one it's a physical good, and number two it's a public market and not the privacy of someone's laptop. These two things change people's behavior significantly.

She said she ripped cds inside her college radio station on her laptop. I am pretty sure this is technically illegal, and also ubiquitous and unpunished. Another example of an irrelevant law that is not enforced.

Correct, we all know it is illegal. I don't think that was the core of the moral imperative in the original article. What is interesting is how consumers, musicians, and promoters/streaming services/ labels will move forward. I am a musician, and I also run a recording studio where I work with underground bands. I have been performing music and recording music since 1996. The old model for the music industry never served anyone I knew. In fact it helped implode some of my favorite 90's groups: Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Engine 88, Shudder to Think, Seaweed, and it nearly smushed Samiam but th

It is legally theft. And crossing the street away from an intersection is legally jaywalking. I suppose people who's perception of reality is constantly clarified by law must really be struggling with the hemorrhaging of a corporate art market that is ravaged by every aunt, son-in-law and girl next door you know. They are all violating the law, and they go unpunished. Somehow the law never seemed to define the meaning of rock and roll, and how it is used.

But that's what's up for debate. Society has not been able to collectively deem the inherent value of something that does not occupy physical space. It is not a settled matter. Musicians also have a pretty wide range of opinions about this.

More thoughts on this: I remember Jeff Tweedy once saying something like: "Music isn't a loaf of bread." Intellectual property theft is one of the most abstract ethical accusations around. If you bit torrent an album someone spent 15 grand making are you taking away something that puts them at a loss? Do they have less goods? If you steal a riff from the Kinks is that wrong? If you get a decoded copy of Adobe Photoshop from your room mate is that hurting people? It's cool to read the back and forth between these bloggers because they're both pissed off, and they're both kind of right

That's a great article. While I don't agree that releasing music was ever very lucrative for less-than-famous artists, that doesn't mean we shouldn't pay them. I especially liked his point that music consumers like to give the man the finger by not paying a record company for songs, so they can listen to the songs on a device created by a bigger mega-corporation.

More than anyone could demand to know, Jules. But I suppose as you said, you brought it up. This brings that conversation back to square one; lots of people do what Jules does. They work hard and make difficult decisions, they employ hundreds, some thousands of people. They are a much-needed part of our economy. This does not mean to me that corporations should all have their current tax breaks. Suggesting an end to any of those tax breaks is not a call to "punish job creators" (as we've discussed customers are as much job creators as anything else). My minimal economic knowledge woul

The government is a job creator. When Obama signed the stimulus bill in 2009 it allocated a large amount of money to "shovel ready" projects in our 50 states. As it happens, my home state of CO had it's proverbial shit together with plans drawn up, and budgets sorted out for highway improvements, and light rail expansion. Those funds put a ton of Coloradans to work. There jobs did not exist before and in a few years I will be able to take the train to the airport. In a few months there will be a nicer on-ramp from Santa Fe onto I-25. Long live Karl Marx.

Now I'm reading this in preparation for my journey to Argentina/ Uruguay next month.

Class conflict on the VC.