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YUGOSLAVIA AND <strong>OF</strong> THIS BLOG BECAUSE THIS IS THE WAY I REPAY MY<br />

DEBT TO THE COUNTRY WHERE I GREW UP AND LIVED AND WAS A FULL<br />

FLEDGED YUGOLSAV. TODAY WE CAN ONLY REMEMBER ALL THIS AND I<br />

WILL REMEMBER ALL THIS HERE ON THIS BLOG AND SO CAN YOU COME<br />

HERE AND REMEMBER HOW IT ONCE WAS. 186<br />

This post recapitulates the general attitude of the blog in general. Proudly celebrating three years<br />

of existence, Aktivista nicely subsumes the mission of music blogs in general: ―today we can only<br />

remember all this and I will remember all this here on this blog and so can you come here and<br />

remember how it once was.‖ Interestingly, he posits music as the main vehicle to remembering,<br />

but at the same time also defines Jugozvuk as the place (from) where remembering can take place.<br />

Faulty Records<br />

The interlinking among ‗brotherly‘ music blogs provides the visitor (and researcher) with a way to<br />

trace other blogs that are (loosely) related in the post-Yugoslav musical blogging endeavours. One<br />

such blog is Nevaljaleploce (ova ploca nista ne valja, ima rupu u sredini! [this is a faulty record,<br />

it‘s got a hole in the middle!]), 187 managed by Bassta! Pex a.k.a. Gramofonije Plocanovic. Crosscommenting<br />

between the two blogs (and some others) suggests existence and emergence of a sort<br />

of community between the music bloggers. As compared to Aktivista, Gramofonije takes a<br />

different approach and makes his blog a much more personal endeavour by blogging also about<br />

his private life, travelling and his band. At the beginning he states:<br />

Vinyl and stuff – if someone finds anything disturbing or if I broke any law, please feel<br />

free to say so – we‘ll consider everything, but change nothing! I suggest you buy these<br />

records, if available [translation of text in Serbian]. If anyone is upset about anything,<br />

whether the content or copyright breach/whatever please get in touch. I recommend<br />

everyone and anyone and their families go out and buy these records, if available [original<br />

in English]. 188<br />

In the part of the mission statement available in Serbian, Gramofonije ironically adapts the usual<br />

quotation used to provide some excuse for posting copyrighted material (e.g. ―let me know, I‘ll<br />

remove it‖) by saying: ―If someone finds anything disturbing or if I broke any law, please feel free<br />

to say so – we‘ll consider everything, but change nothing! I recommend you buy the vinyl/CD, if<br />

available. If you wish distribute links, feel free to do so. Those that expire will probably not be re-<br />

186 Jugozvuk, http://jugozvuk.blogspot.com/2011/04/opera-iz-davne-1972-godine-uzivo-za-dan.html, accessed 8<br />

August 2011.<br />

187 Basta! Pex, Nevaljaleploce, http://nevaljaleploce.blogspot.com/, accessed 8 August 2011.<br />

188 Basta! Pex, Nevaljaleploce, http://nevaljaleploce.blogspot.com/, accessed 8 August 2011.<br />

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