Usenet Newsgroups Re: My method against music piracy From: 0junk4me@bellsouth.net MIke Rivers writes:    >> RIght, or as Hank notes, on the web which isn't quite    >> distribution actually, as he notes, tens of thousands of    >> songs up but never downloaded.    >True, but every once in a while you hear about someone who    >has has thousands of downloads of his music. Who's that    >current pop singer who got famous from just a video on    >YouTube?  They don't all have thousands of downloads, of    >course, but they can't all be lying, either. Right, can't think of his name either, but seen a couple mentions in ROlling stone. THing is, I"m one of these top 20 on the radio haters as well, which I why I liked wwoz in NEw ORleans.  IN fact, often if I heard them on wwoz I was told when they were going to be in NEw ORleans and could go see the act if I liked what I heard.  Also, there were progressive jazz cuts, old jazz cuts, lots of stuff I might have heard at one time but forgotten about.  Was nice to get an earworm going around in my head that was a song I hadn't heard since 20 years ago, or never before heard in my life. But, as LEs notes, building that community is much harder in virtual space than in realspace.  HIs example of Hank Williams Sr. who stated he could make more money doing schoolhouse gigs than he could playing on wsm.  YEt, wsm built a real community, and a fan base in virtual space before it was called virtual space <grin>.  Yeah they did it with a blowtorch am signal, and are the biggest reason there is a musical community at all in Nashville today.  tHanks to later wsm and Opry owners though they nearly killed it. Richard webb, replace anything before at with elspider ON site audio in the southland: see Subject