Negativland - Only A Sample lyrics

rate me

Not that I have anything against shoe salesmen, <br />

But let me tell you something<br />

See, I was born with a song in my heart, not a shoe.<br />

Hello, Dead-Dog records. If it ain't a Dead-Dog, it ain't barking.<br />

How can I help ya?<br />

There are fifty-million blank cassettes a year sold in this country, <br />

And believe me, they're not being used for dictation. <br />

They're being used to copy records. There is no expemption of copyright<br />

For home taping, period, without the consent of the owner.<br />

What's going on anyways?<br />

What comes out of the machine is different<br />

Than what goes in.<br />

The new tech, the new tech, the new technology.<br />

The most important things about the invention of tape<br />

Is that it changed music from being an event in time,<br />

Into being an event in space.<br />

The relationship between a copy and an original<br />

...into being an event in space.<br />

I think it challanges notions we have about<br />

The relationship between a copy and an original<br />

You can edit it, strech the songs.<br />

And of course then when it's played back, <br />

Transamible<br />

You're dealing in the same sense <br />

In the same sense you're dealing with any plastic material<br />

And ofcourse, then when it's played back, <br />

It once again becomes an event in time.<br />

But during that intrum <br />

(I suppose)<br />

But during that intrum period, where it's a spacial thing,<br />

You can do lots of things with it.<br />

Lots of things that you never had available<br />

Prior to -, Prior to -, Prior to -,<br />

The invention of tape.<br />

It took while (seeing) before anybody started<br />

Seeing the possibilities of this<br />

Seeing the possibilities of this<br />

What's the power of reproducing information <br />

Back into our own heads?<br />

Th