It disgusts me that anyone would need to turn something into a competition as an incentive to get better at it. In a perfect society, all those things you mentioned that result from band competitions would take place without it being a contest. I guess that's not very realistic, though. And I do realize how old a tradition it is. I mentioned that in my post. Bah, I have an extreme dislike of competition. Everything I say about it is to be taken as my own highly biased personal opinion.
Is it just me... or are people listening to utter SHIT these days? Maybe I'm hit with an anomalous amount of it because I live in such a cultural wasteland... so I'd like to hope. I don't believe it though. I believe people nation-wide (I can't speak for other countries) are letting this aural diarrhea they know as popular music dribble into their heads and soak through their eardrums and infect their brains. God bless anyone who doesn't go out and buy the latest cookie-cutter gangster rap/hip-hop or effeminate jingly pop-rock album.
This rant was brought to you by an entire day of having to hear other people's shitty music, and other annoyances.
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Last edited by TheRaisin; 09-30-2005 at 08:29 PM..
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