People don't understand how important it is for your morale and your general psychological well-being to feel connected to some kind of culture. Especially local culture. Local music is one of the most available forms of that. It's cheap and it's good for people because everything is like Starbucks nowadays. They think that they should work every single day of the week.
People work harder for more money and enjoy themselves much less.
They need music and art now more than ever. With the presidential elections only a few weeks off, the subject turned to who would best be able to guide America out of the slough of greed and shallowness into which it has descended. Case is a committed Ralph Nader supporter and doesn't have many kind words for either Al Gore or George W. Bush, even though she concedes that votes for Nader could possibly make it easier for Bush to win. Yeah, I'm concerned about that. Basically I don't like Gore but as far as the humanitarian issues he's worlds ahead of George Bush.