I like to joke about this stuff, and I'm not Richie's biggest fan...but in all seriousness, for those of you who really criticize him for this: I trust you have never purchases cool shoes, worn designer club t shirts, bought expensive sunglasses, or exhibited any other consumeristic behavior that in...

A-Dreamer wrote:it insults music and djs.

a lot of djs these days insult music and djs.

Wow, glad I got to see them when they came through San Francisco a few months ago... Was a good night, packed house, too. They did it up quite nicely old school, just a bunch of vinyl. This is speculation, and I really don't know if this has anything to do with this... but I can't help thinking back...

I think we should just start a subforum with all of the "future of minimal" debates, which seem to account for a good 25% of the threads around here.

few times I was on that site, I noticed quite quickly that they just didn't have anywhere even near the catalogue of their other notorious competitor... As much as everyone likes to hate on them, Beatport is still around and I believe they're still making some cash...and there is a reason for that.

don't worry... I was in college like you once, too, and I've spent a shitload on music, equipment, etc. If you love this stuff, it's worth it. Just make sure you can pay your bills and set aside some money for savings along the way. It's a tradeoff, like everything else...I make up for the spending ...

glad the rest of the world is finally figuring it out, you broke through in my book a while back already

My $.02... it really depends on your connection to the music format. I'm also DJ Nobody, with a huge vinyl collection... because that was what I was around when I first got into the music. I frequented my local record store and fell in love with every aspect of it. I made good money and decided to c...