murder and desire
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I don't know if we can ever measure the net effect of this website of total sales. My gut feeling is it is a net positive, I.e. Yes I received leaked Quarry tracks before the album was released, but this did not stop me from buying the Quarry album, the deluxe edition, and all the singles released. I suspect I'm not alone. I can't begin to tell you how many times someone purchased a 7" vinyl but didn't own a record player! So, I guess we agree to disagree. No worries.
The other point you made which really struck me: "The person who brought then here has not really changed that much." I would vehemently disagree with that. Since That's How People Grow Up, there has been a change. Lyrically, in interviews, I've wondered on these forums after hearing the Janice Long tracks what 20 something Morrissey who wrote Get Off the Stage would think about this current incarnation. I think he has changed, and that's normal. Am I less of a fan because I prefer ROTT to YOR? I been savaged for that position which has always left me wondering if the people being critical understand the massive hypocrisy they're spewing: so I'm a bad fan for dissing YOR but they are with Morrissey and good fans because they believe ROTT sucked and YOR is great?! Aren't we both stating we don't like one album? But if you don't like the current album, the flavor of the day, your opinion is somehow less valid, or you just don't get it. Strange...
Morrissey was 31 (i think) when he released "Get off the stage", I don't know when he wrote it, I hear it was the year before, so, he would have been 29 or 30 (I think).. At that point he was mad set on a solo career, he had no plans on getting off the stage anytime soon. Morrissey said he wanted to retire by the time he was 30 at one point. Morrissey likes to make grand statements and to bitch and moan (you haven't noticed?). He also said he didn't like videos he made them in the Smiths and in his solo life- he often changes his mind sweet.
Of course Morrissey has changed in terms of age and wealth and that changes ones mind..My point is, you would be surprised how much his personality hasn't changed inside.
From what I have heard he really is "just the same underneath". I really do feel the reason people lose faith in Morrissey tends to be down to them, people lose interest for a number of reasons. The bitter fans seem to sit in the same chair of despair (Oh, sit me anywhere but never there). The reason they become thus (I think) is because (as I said) they get the wrong idea about who Morrissey really is, they then think they are like him etc etc. Then one day, truth slaps them abound the back of the head with a toaster and they see that they have been an ocean way from the truth..This leaves them feeling foolish,sad and dejected. So, how do some deal with this truth. Well, they deny it, reject it and decide its Morrisseys fault for not being how he never was in the first place.
You really shouldn't care if someone says an lp is better than one you prefer, its subjective.
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