It's not just half the stuff. Emotionally the toll is usually far greater on men. Let's face it, when a woman has given birth to her children and she has her own money, a husband is a luxury.
In other words they don't need us. We need them - or we are victims of the illusion that we need them.
People do mean that shit when they say it. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
If one comes into a union with substantial assets, a pre-nup is not out of the question.Originally Posted by progmatist
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." Yes, we've been replaced by Hitachi.Originally Posted by Zappathustra
In Copenhagen (Denmark) in the 80'ties there was a guy who bought all of the recordcompanies classical vinyl for nothing. They sold it because 'CD was the future'.
He had a audio equipment shop (http://www.audioart.dk/ - owned by sombody else today), and sorted out those albums that had a great sound, great recordings (Decca etc.), and sold them expensive. He had great help in the fact that most CD's from that period sounded pretty bad.
He made a two digit number of millions on this.
^^ - Good for him. Not easy to do. Classical is the ONE genre where CDs rule, due to dynamic range and length and low noise floor. And low hipster count.
Have you heard the CD with Vivaldi 4 seasons on Deutsche Grammofon with Anne Sophie Mutter ?
One of the early CD's in the 80'ties. HORRIBLE !
I have a few jazz/rock CD's bought in this period. The sound stinks.
A friend of mine sold all his Zappa vinyl and bought the CD's (also 80'ties). He almost cried when he had to admit that the sound was so lousy.
I'm have both Vinyl and CD - both can sound superior. Depends of a multiple of factors.
Yes, Zappa invited chaos on his own catalogue in the CD era, so that is an extreme example. I remember thinking 'what the hell is that?' when I heard his Hot Rats remix which for many years was the only version in print. And he didn't add crappy 80s sounds to it so it's listenable, but really it's so sonically different from the original (different song lengths, different instrument placement) that he should have called it The Alternate Hot Rats or something. The later reissue CD campaign restored some of the originals (including Hot Rats) but not all of them; some of the original album mixes have only come out under alternate titles, so the confusion remains.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
^Zoot Allures had its original mix restored in the last CD reissue campaign. That campaign seems to have flown under the radar really (that happens when you have as much product on the shelves as Frank Zappa does, alas). It seems to be mainly the 60s albums which were not restored to their original form with those particular reissues.
I have to say that CD of Hot Rats' original mix does sound terrific. Should have been like that all along.
This description almost exactly mirrors mine, i.e. I'm married, but my wife and I early on decided not to have kids, and we get along great and have absolutely no regrets.
Nothing to do with record players but everything to do with solidarity with fellow musicians who have made similar life choices that they are happy with.
Have those Zappa discs ever been fixed?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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