Re: Elvis Costello albums set for THIRD round of reissues


David in NYC wrote:
the q is silent wrote:
David in NYC wrote:


How was my post a rant?

Well, you responded in less than three minutes to a post I edited and
re-edited off and on over the course of an afternoon.

Sorry. That's how long it took to find all the holes in your arguments.
(It helped that many of them were same ones that have been there for
months.)

I remember being in my early 20's and getting upset whenever anyone
criticized Springsteen or a bad reveiw came out.

Relax. It's OK.

David, your intellectual dishonesty here is astounding. I realize it's
difficult to say, "Okay, good point, I'm wrong," but resorting to this
kind of condescending idiocy really does make you look like a petulant
child.

You can try all you want to label me as some kind of idealistic
Springsteen apologist, but nobody is buying into that delusion but you.
For starters, go back and find my post of a few weeks ago in which I
called the American leg of this past tour as "colossal ***-up" about
which Springsteen simply should be embarrassed and for which he
probably ought to apologize.

If wanted to get all psychoanalytical, I'd say that you're projecting
your own younger self onto me and attempting to berate me as a way of
chastising yourself for being so caught up in the Springsteen myth when
you were younger that you all but deified the guy. Hey, if that's what
it takes for you to work out the bizarre anger you have for Springsteen
these days, I guess that's all right. Feel free to use me as your
punching bag. As long as you recognize that it's dishonest, and that
it's yourself you're really beating up on.

At any rate, once again, this has nothing to do with you criticizing
Springsteen. I could give a *** if you criticize Springsteen. However,
if you're going to criticize Springsteen in the same breath that you
heap praise upon Elvis Costello, a guy who has engaged in exactly the
same fan-extortion tactics as Springsteen in the past few years, then
you're opening yourself up to be called on your bull***.

Just to repeat myself, since you didn't bother responding to this part
of my last post, you've given the following reasons why it's okay for
Elvis Costello to extort money from his fans via reissues but not okay
for Springsteen to do the same:
1) he has fewer fans
2) he's only mega-rich and not super-mega-rich
3) he's released more albums than Springsteen
4) he's more of a "genius" than Springsteen

What on earth is the logic there?

Now, really, I don't give a *** if you lambast both Springsteen and
Costello for their various money grabs. Nor do I give a *** if you
deify them both. But make it one or the other, please. Enough of the
bombastic hypocrisy.

(Also, just for the record, I don't know what the tracklisting is for
this expanded Seeger CD, but odds are, I won't buy it. I already bought
the album once, and that was less than four months ago. I didn't buy
the expanded Delivery Man, either.)

-Jyqm

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