I must say I disagree with you, Eve. I really doubt you have ever felt the emotion of finding a CD or tape you have been looking for months or even years in a dusty, almost forgotten music store, or in the other hand, spending 4 hours a day during 2 weeks to find that copy of an unique CD. It was that way when I first got my Angst Cd. I payed the equivallent to 40 US dollars for a 2nd hand cd, and I did so because in any other music store it was either unknown or sold out (13 years ago). Similar things happened with Sopor aeternus' "Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue; doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf ... in einer Vision des Untergangs" and Christian Death's "Ashes". Do you know what does it feel to see that very rare cd you looked for so long to be always in stock on stores like Mix-up and D&C? (both mexican, as far as i know). That mystique that hard-to-find cds possess is fading away. As well as Goth in general. Now you can find "read-it-how manuals" to be a pretended old-school goth on almost every blogspot or myspace page. Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe Lacrimosa deserves all of its popularity, but is it right to sell your ideals to a money-making firma? That is the thing that makes me sad, and every day more dissapointed. Here in Mexico, even the term "LacriMODA" is getting very popular. In case you dont understand spanish, that you may not, it would be similar to saying "LacriFASHON". Every time I hear that, a feeling of... well, angers fills my entire body, because I really LOVED Lacrimosa.
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