My girlfriend, my neighbors, and I all went out last weekend and had one of the most unexpected but wonderful experiences in a long time. Too much awesome happened to write down, but here is a little summary. I’ve always been a pretty big fan of The Decemberists, but I’ve become especially enamored with their latest effort entitled The Hazards of Love. Shara of My Brightest Diamon...
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Boo hoo! Massive RIAA Layoffs: I’m feeling lazy, and the write of the article sums it up pretty nicely so I’ll just quote. “The real issue is that the RIAA has basically managed to run one of the dumbest, most self-defeating strategies over the last decade. Rather than helping major record labels adjust to the changing market, it continually, repeatedly and publicly destroyed...
You couldn’t make up something as stupid as this if you tried. Story Here Apparently a royalty collecting firm is trying to collect royalties from a car repair shop because the employees there listen to the radio. This makes the music a “public performance” since the customers can hear the music, and the firm feels they should be compensated for these performances. AKPC_IDS +=...
I guess Sony won’t be joining Amazon’s new MP3 service any time soon. “When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Making “a copy” of a purchased song is just “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy’,” she said. I guess if I legally buy a Sony CD I still have to buy the iTunes version...
For years I and many others have been asking for online music store that offered affordably priced music without all the restrictions that places like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. put on the files. Amazon has finally answered our prayers with their new MP3 download service. Prices vary depending on the song or album, presumbly set by the artist or label, but they average around the $0.99 ma...
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