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February 25, 2004 #
Eliot Spitzer Attorney General of New York February 25, 2004 Dear Mr. Spitzer: As a New York Music Purchaser, I was pleased to receive your letter in the mail with payment for my claim in the settlement of the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation. As part of the team that included Attorneys General from 43 states, 3 territories and counsel for Private Class Plaintiffs on behalf of music purchasers, your work to produce an agreement with the Defendants to distribute $67,375,000 in cash payments and $75,700,000 worth of prerecorded music is, simply put, FUCKIN' AWESOME!!! All of this was done in the backdrop of the biggest piracy bonanza the world has ever seen! Of course I would never think of paying for music again since it's been deemed a free public good (even when aurally bad) by the global Internet community. But certainly that doesn't mean war crime reparations should not be paid for the heinous acts committed by the music industry in those dark, pre-"file sharing" years. Your courageous fight puts the con, sum, and er back into consumer! Song lyrics are probably in order to best express myself: I'm so excited, And I just can't hide it, I'm about to lose control And I think I like it. As a member of the settlement group -- anyone who purchased prerecorded Music Products, consisting of compact discs, cassettes and vinyl albums, from one or more retailers during the period January 1, 1995, through December 22, 2000 -- it gives me great pleasure to accept this payment knowing the matter has been settled and justice has been served. Those were big music purchasing years for me and the now broken jewel cases, thumb-stained CD inlays, and mood-altering indie-rock melodies/melodramas serve as the scars I will wear and hear for the rest of life's b-side. I admit I was hoping for full refunds of several purchases like Joan of Arc's "How Memory Works" and Belle & Sebastian's "The Boy with the Arab Strap" which was so horrible that I never fully recovered and couldn't listen to their subsequent releases. But now that I have my share of America's pie, the "princely sum" of $13.86, I am going to treat myself as any NY music buyer would: Fuck the subway, I'm takin' a taxi to work tomorrow!! Thanks dude, Andrew Krucoff Archives "The Other Page" powered by Removable Hype. RSS. Copyright © 2003 La Otra Página, Inc. All nights observed. Feel free to email "info(at)krucoff.com" for questions, comments, stock tips, and family gossip. |
