The Shrine

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 15, 2003 11:36 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah, In Da Club is over played, but there are hella other tracks on this album that are just fucking awesome. Pick this up.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:36 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Had it since it came out, I actually paid money for it, which is saying alot. :)</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:46 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's one of like 5 albums I've bought in the last two years =P</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:33 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I DLed it, was not impressed...</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:03 pm**

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Yeah I got tickets to see him next month</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:20 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Lets see, you don't like Nirvana, you don't like The White Stripes, you don't like 50 Cent, you love Radiohead, no offense, but your music taste sucks! =P</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 17, 2003 4:31 pm**

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>NO worse than yours mr fake lesbian crappy techno crap music</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:14 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I don't dislike Nirvana or the White Stripes, I just think they are WAY too overhyped... but 50 Cent is just a fucking moron.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:45 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Black.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 17, 2003 6:28 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Seeker, of the few areas in which you're justified to criticize people, musical taste is not one of them.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 1:50 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>What's wrong with it?</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:28 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Uhh, what's wrong with Tatu or Avril Lavigne?</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:38 am**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Maybe it's that others think that YOU have bad taste in music.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:45 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Seriously, I know you (like a lot of people here) have some sort of social issue where you hate everything that's popular, but that doesn't give you a right to bash on good music.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:58 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>There's nothing wrong with my taste in music; as I said, normally the bands I like hit the top of the charts and sell millions of albums.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 1:10 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>This is not a pop culture group of people here. =8^)</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 2:57 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah no kidding, freakin weirdos...</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 3:54 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Uh, likewise, pointing to music popularity does not prove its quality.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 3:58 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Of course you think there's nothing wrong, they're YOUR tastes.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 3:59 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Catchy and perhaps fun to listen to, but vapid. Wears off quickly.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 4:18 pm**

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 8:59 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Take heart in the fact that you musical taste mathematically coiencides with boys aged 11-17 and girls aged 10-16.

Yeah, that's the definition of good music taste...

HAHAHA!</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:11 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't listen to that type of music so I don't really have an opinion on them.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:12 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>As I've said numerous times before, I don't listen to that type of music so I don't have an opinion on them.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:16 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>and you are going to back this statement, how?</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 19, 2003 12:20 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Stop getting all your music taste from Electronic Circus you out-of-touch college shut-in ; )

KO-</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 19, 2003 10:05 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Nah, I usually start listening to bands before they get popular. Also, sorry to say, but if you think Spice Girls, Ricky Martin, and the Backstreet Boys are the same genre as Nirvana, 50 Cent, and the White Stripes then you just have a really bad ear for music.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 19, 2003 10:33 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Quality does not necessarily follow from popularity. If you think it does, please explain.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 19, 2003 3:03 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>No, Seeker, you've got it backwards. It's that all the bands that sell over 10 million albums are the ones you like.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:03 pm**

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Avril Lavigne - adding to the wattering down of punk to the point that now it is fucking water....good god she's more of a poser than the guys in Blink....And TATU....fake lesbians wiht shitty voices singing to a crappy ass techno beat</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:04 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's logical that more people will flock to a higher quality product if it is equal in price to the lower quality products.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:05 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Lets see, Tatu, Eminem, 50 Cent, I was listening to them and others before anyone even knew who the hell they were. Don't you pay attention to my posts? I said Eminem was going to be huge, I said 50 cent was going to be huge, I said Tatu was going to be huge, and guess what?</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:04 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I remember you said you first heard TATU because it was played at a club. Unless this was a club in Russia, they were already popular at that point.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:09 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Popularity can not be a measure of quality because it's impossible to remove the effects of advertising, free or otherwise.

Crappy products can be popular. Hence, quality does not necessarily follow from popularity.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:27 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>They play a lot of stuff at clubs that never gets popular, it's up to the DJ's. Besides, I think I first started liking the song back in October, it didn't hit the top 200 until late January or February.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:16 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Personally I think you sound very foolish by saying that I only like music because it's "hyped". Usually music gets hyped because a lot of people like it in the first place.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:17 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Heh, please, Seeker. You don't have any special, extraordinary ability to have found all these bands "before they made it big". Just because you have your ear to the ground for new bands that are quickly rising in popularity doesn't mean you're somehow "discovering" them.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:57 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You said "only" - not me. What I said is that you can't remove the effect of hype. People's taste are influenced by the media they consume.</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:47 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Really? Says who?</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:56 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>But they're POPULAR!</div>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:48 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Says me. If you can provide a rationale against both my claims, I'd love to hear it.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:49 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Reminds me to download it. Now, I know 50 Cent is selling like crazy, but what makes him so good?</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:55 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Some faster than others. Avril quickly soured on me, but Tatu s still fun to listen to.</div>

The Shrine

50 Cent album > toast > Dallas.

50 Cent album > toast > Dallas.

Avril Lavigne... TATU... pot, kettle.

..and that's exactly why all the bands I like end up selling over 10 million albums, right?

Haha...you silly posuer. Never has your use of statistics been more stupid. Back Street Boys and Ricky Martin do to, you Pop-wannabe. You Livin' La Vida Loca buddy?

Yes you do...different name, same game. You are a chart whore and as long as they sell a lot of CDs, they are a quality band...you said so. Pick up a Spice Girls CD...I'm betting you'll like it.

People flocking to a product has much to do with the hype that product has gotten. Being popular is a self-reinforcing effect.

If people don't like a product, they're not going to buy it. I don't listen to any country music, so no matter how hyped a country music album gets, I'm not going to buy it.