>>>>>I agree about the importance of their opinions. However, in my book support means taking a stand and
not cancelling recording and concert dates because of public outcry. Where is the courage in cancelling dates?
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>>>>There was no way to recoup their costs if no one was buying tickets... It was a business decision for them.
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>>>Yes it was, but this whole conversation was about how much courage it takes for a performer to take a right wing stance while it takes none to take a left wing stance. I'm waiting to see something that bears out that idea, and so far I haven't. It takes courage to put one's money/career/reputation on the line, and none not to.
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>>It was not "a left wing stance" it was the interjection of political opinion into a performance and a rejection of that opinion by a substantial number of the customers. Let Cold Play start talking about how cool it is that we invaded Iraq and do you think they would suffer no consequences in the market place?
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>Be interesting to find out, no? I wonder how we could arrange it.
Silly technologically retrograde person - we don't have to arrange it - we just blog that it is so ! It will go viral in moments.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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