There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.
Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.