Comments on: Are We Desperate Yet?

By: R.J. Lehmann

R.J. Lehmann — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:24:42 +0000

Even if I had no preconceived opinions about socialized medicine, I’d hardly consider it a recomendation that it would help subsidize a proliferation of whiney and tuneless crackas who can’t play their instruments.

By: Jamie Mellway

Jamie Mellway — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:42:30 +0000

I don’t follow this at all. What does socialized medicine have to do with making music? Correlation doesn’t imply causality.

A better bit of Canadian socialism to blame is CanCon. Perhaps there are good music scenes in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.

By: Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:49:20 +0000

Dude, your math is wrong. If the Pitchfork list is 10 percent Canadian, then that means US acts outnumber Canuck acts 9:1, but the US population outnumbers the Canadian population 10:1. Perhaps more to the point, many non-Canadian bands aren’t American either. 10 percent Canadianness (assuming that’s the right number) is a lot of Canada.

For indie rock promotion purposes, at any rate, the relevant feature of the Canadian system is simply that it severs the employment-medicine link rather than its various other aspects.

By: nofrontin

nofrontin — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:23:57 +0000

Hi Will,

I just wanted to say I loved your response to Michael Brendan Dougherty’s post on “morality” and markets.

- a libertarian from sioux city