Kevin Sutton wrote:

>>[Ah, and the death of the majors continues unabated.  -Dave]
>
>And to this I say, again, "Who gives a damn!"
>
>As long as the "minors" can produce an affordable quality product, who the
>hell needs the "majors"? They have been churning out crap for years now
>anyway!
>
>[Actually, that's my point.  To so many people (journalists in particular,
>it seems), as go the majors so goes classical music.  This is erroneous,
>as Kevin points out.  The majors have been increasingly superfluous to
>the serious collector for quite some time.  I like to take every
>opportunity to extricate the fortunes of classical music from the big,
>blundering corporate machines that deluge us in ridiculous crossovers
>and theme collections.  Classical music will survive in lieu, and in
>spite, of these entities.  -Dave]

Just to clarify, I was aware that Dave was not really lamenting the passing
of the superfluous majors, and my comments were my smart-aleck way of
saying amen!  I used to regret the major's demise, but hey, Testament is
giving us what is truly the worthwhile stuff of the old Angel catalogue.
There is no reason that they or someone like them can give us the worthy
stuff from other biggies.  Let em get on with dying.  It was is decrease
the surplus population.

Mr. Scrooge
(aka, Kevin Sutton)