Everyone’s linking to
The Liner Notes Preservation Society, so why should I be any different? However, while this idea is as charmingly quaint as any non-commercialised sector of the web these days, it’s another entry in my list of things that are
Getting it totally wrong. Hmmm, perhaps if that list existed anywhere except in my mind, I’d post it up for your perusal. Anyway, liner notes can be cool and all, and the siteowners probably don’ t mean anything much by it, but the idea of getting into new music through them strikes me as fetishistic and pointless - a small battle in the ongoing campaign to turn music the product into music the statement. And you can just bet that the the bulk of political liner-notes come from self-apologetic fucks like Moby who want to put cred-winning “meaning” into their work without becoming Bob Dylan or Public Enemy. Isn’t this what the free-flowing cultural exchange of MP3s is supposed to counteract? Did Napster die for THIS????
