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Sparked by a familiar controversy rearing its head on The Lex's LJ, I thought maybe a poll would help us get further into this question. (Let's not go all ILM here, please.)

[Poll #663010]

The underlying question maybe:"Is it important for your consumption of music to reflect your social and political beliefs?" (another old ILM favourite). When the choice to be made is a negative one, a lot of people say "yes" - someone who hates homophobia may well boycott records by an act they see as homophobic. But my guess is people who believe in racial equality don't make 'positive' choices to support that in their music consumption (for instance). And why should they, if they don't like the music? But I think it's an interesting area.

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[(Anonymous)]

I would like to report that of the eight performers I actually paid money or traded CDs for in the last year (all in the last two months, as it happened), five are sexy white woman under the age of 25 or so (the Voice reimbursed me for one of these hot babes; we classified it as "client entertainment"), one is a sexy white woman in her forties, one is a sexy young black dude, one is a whole crew of somewhat sexy white guys in their twenties, and one is a white guy even older than I am.

If you add in the additional eight performers I had burned for me over this two-months span, a total of three of them are short (including one who is lil and one whose breasts are small and humble and whose ethnicity is all mixed up) and yet another is "Young" (according to his moniker) and black.