"So you can either complain about the RIAA making prices too high, or the chains making prices too low, but you can't complain about both." Bullshit! I complain about everything!
I've used both as a devoted baker and homebrewer (I'm just a yeasty kinda guy). Beer yeasts work slower than bread yeasts but I've made some very interesting breads with them. You can also use the spent grains from the mash in a bread. Just dry 'em & grind 'em. Beer yeasts also don't feed well on wheat flower, so I add some malt powder to the dough. I have had wine made with Fleishman's, during my dark, underage days in college. It works, the resulting "Death Juice." was very potent and vile. I had a few friends who liked it, especially the poor bastard who stank up his dorm room housing the stuff during primary fermentation, but I couldn't drink much at all. So, all in all, they mainly just taste different.
Unfortunately, the world we live in is not one where we can expect positive reinforcement and good example to be completely effective. This cretin knows what he is doing is wrong and not enough people have called him on it. I abhor violence but sometimes a good ass kicking is needed to remind people there are some things you should not do.
Speaking as someone who makes both a living and a lifestyle from my creative energies, I find this appalling. As with any work of art (and while I do hesitate to refer to the likes of "Freddy Got Fingered" and "B.A.P.S." as art, one must take the good with the bad), respect for the vision of the creator is of paramount importance. Once you alter the product, it is no longer the work intended by those who created it. It is acceptable if, instead of renting or selling a bowdlerized version of , say, "Pulp Fiction," it was presented as "A 3rd Party Post-Production Edit of Pulp Fiction." I recently disbanded a very promising group over a similar situation. We recorded an ep & one of the other members edited several bars out of one of my songs without asking and then got defensive & rightous when I asked him about it. That could have been a satisfying and profitable group but I will not be involved in an endeavor where no respect is shown for my creative vision.
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"So you can either complain about the RIAA making prices too high, or the chains making prices too low, but you can't complain about both."
Bullshit! I complain about everything!
I've used both as a devoted baker and homebrewer (I'm just a yeasty kinda guy). Beer yeasts work slower than bread yeasts but I've made some very interesting breads with them. You can also use the spent grains from the mash in a bread. Just dry 'em & grind 'em. Beer yeasts also don't feed well on wheat flower, so I add some malt powder to the dough. I have had wine made with Fleishman's, during my dark, underage days in college. It works, the resulting "Death Juice." was very potent and vile. I had a few friends who liked it, especially the poor bastard who stank up his dorm room housing the stuff during primary fermentation, but I couldn't drink much at all. So, all in all, they mainly just taste different.
Unfortunately, the world we live in is not one where we can expect positive reinforcement and good example to be completely effective. This cretin knows what he is doing is wrong and not enough people have called him on it. I abhor violence but sometimes a good ass kicking is needed to remind people there are some things you should not do.
Speaking as someone who makes both a living and a lifestyle from my creative energies, I find this appalling. As with any work of art (and while I do hesitate to refer to the likes of "Freddy Got Fingered" and "B.A.P.S." as art, one must take the good with the bad), respect for the vision of the creator is of paramount importance. Once you alter the product, it is no longer the work intended by those who created it. It is acceptable if, instead of renting or selling a bowdlerized version of , say, "Pulp Fiction," it was presented as "A 3rd Party Post-Production Edit of Pulp Fiction." I recently disbanded a very promising group over a similar situation. We recorded an ep & one of the other members edited several bars out of one of my songs without asking and then got defensive & rightous when I asked him about it. That could have been a satisfying and profitable group but I will not be involved in an endeavor where no respect is shown for my creative vision.