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Where have the universities gone?

Where have the universities gone?

Posted Jul 25, 2007 8:20 UTC (Wed) by jmoellers (subscriber, #29863)
In reply to: Where have the universities gone? by allesfresser
Parent article: Where have the universities gone?

> People have been plucking, screeching, whistling, hammering, and hollering
> away at music for quite a long time, just for the fun of it, not because
> they want to be the next U2 or Weezer or Whitney Houston (G*d help us),
[...]
> Sometimes people happen to become wealthy through the exercise of their
> hacking or musical skills, but that's more an accident of fortunate
> coincidence and audacity than destiny.

Sadly enough, the current trend in (pop) music pretty much shows the point: Artists are nowadays casted, they are *made* rather than grown!


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