Acid trash - that is so true about the competition thing and the sharing.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of bitching and door-slamming that goes on from people who try to protect themselves in the music scene. If they only realised that its purely up to the individual and that the more people there are the better off everyone is - esp. here in tiny Australia.
They dont realise that it is an advantage to have other artists to carry the load when one has to step back to write new stuff etc.