“I certainly understand nostalgia and I don't want to mess with any warm fuzzies people have”

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Aw, jeez, Reg.

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For me, it was as dimple simple as ..you said ‘80s (wank) and I posted some stuff I like in the sweet of late night passion, partially so's I can visit the dbis nowandagain and listen to it.

& I can’t imagine what in the past several years, dbisly, would have given you the impression I am intellectually capable of staying on topic. NO doubt your point is well documented, and the big tomato on the dbis vine concurs, so yaba-daba-do-be-shoo-be-do.

I totally get it, the balance between true human artistic output & the bean countermeasure. Everything you’ve said in this thread reads true on a plane. Yep. There have always been elements of that in ALL creation to market venture capitalism. Especially the music biz. And certainly more so in the wankin 80s---They drilled for crude, refined it, fueled it, and made it into marketable crud that surrounds us with all that we survey, oh yay, oh yay, plastic wank.

For me, give and take the really bad stuff and the really, really, good stuff, I dug the fuck outa wankin in the 80s. Even in the din of the cold war and all its machinations above and below board, even though I spent a portion of it in a uniform I only 75% respected, the eighties provided me with the greatest level of personal liberty I have ever known.

& I never had to dig for music, …it made itself apparent, and I don’t need a new song every day to keep my yang up. One good album goes a loong way towards staving off the malaise.