Negativland - Only A Sample Lyrics
Not that I have anything against shoe salesmen,but let me tell you somethingSee, I was born with a song in my heart, not a shoe.Hello, Dead-Dog records. If it ain't a Dead-Dog, it ain't barking.How can I help ya?There are fifty-million blank cassettes a year sold in this country,and believe me, they're not being used for dictation.They're being used to copy records. There is no expemption of copyrightfor home taping, period, without the consent of the owner.What's going on anyways?What comes out of the machine is differentthan what goes in.The new tech, the new tech, the new technology.The most important things about the invention of tapeis that it changed music from being an event in time,into being an event in space.The relationship between a copy and an original...into being an event in space.I think it challanges notions we have aboutthe relationship between a copy and an originalYou can edit it, strech the songs.And of course then when it's played back,transamibleYou're dealing in the same senseIn the same sense you're dealing with any plastic materialAnd ofcourse, then when it's played back,it once again becomes an event in time.But during that intrum(I suppose)But during that intrum period, where it's a spacial thing,you can do lots of things with it.Lots of things that you never had availablePrior to -, Prior to -, Prior to -,The invention of tape.It took while (seeing) before anybody startedseeing the possibilities of thisseeing the possibilities of thisWhat's the power of reproducing informationback into our own heads?Th
