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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (13441)	7/30/2000 11:18:18 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

Rocky, re: "There is a Pro-Napster argument these days hat touring is now supposed to be an artist's only income." Barbara Streisand has never "toured". She has a serious anxiety problem and (to my knowledge) has appeared only once in front of a live audience in the last 15 years (I'm not a big Streisand fan but when she hit pay TV with a special last year. she was clearly astounding!) Barbara is not alone. Music is music. Tours are tours. Sometimes the twains meet, and sometimes not. Books should have been the obvious target for Napster-like services, Except that most of the people I know prefer to smell the paper. Maybe that's the problem with music. In "the old days of LPs", we got a LARGE album cover with lots of pictures and .. sometimes ... a nifty insert. With CDs you only get a squintable picture and a booklet designed for mice to read. Now that we know that CDs are worth all of $.50 each, and the "added value" of the LP cover is gone, how much longer can record companies expect CDs to cost more than LPs? Craig