Tony Brummel has offered a good deal of entertainment and raised important points this year. A thread at The Velvet Rope has an exchange between Brummel, the owner of Victory Records, and Apple's Steve Jobs.

Brummel, who has been vocal about his refusal to sell his label's music at iTunes, reached out to Jobs in an effort to see the two companies "working together in a proactive and revolutionary way" and expressed disappointment at the ways iTunes' people responded with a "pompous, uneducated and condescending demeanor."

Jobs asked what Brummel wants, Brummel responded with a loose plan for a mutually exclusive, anti-corporate relationship that would be a "great headline/story" and a "great PR campaign." Jobs was succinct in shooting down Brummel's ideas.

And that's when Brummel let fly.

The entire email exchange after the jump...

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