July 12, 2004
Monday, Monday
Posted by nerdling | July 12, 2004 02:52 PM
Some jackass (read: not me) bought the 100 millionth iTunes song over the weekend, winning himself a very sexy Apple prize package. I am chartreuse with envy.
While the industry and the RIAA are running around making all that racket over piracy, Vivendi Universal is readying to sell music that it did not purchase. Yes, that's right kids: when CNET purchased the MP3.com domain name, the deal did not include the 1.5 million song archive provided—for free—by MP3.com users. As a result, the archive is now in private hands and is being used by Vivendi subsidiary TruSonic, a rival for the Muzak market.
And just what do the big wigs at TruSonic intend to do about the very large cache of free songs that they do not own but apparently intend to sell? "Artists who created the 1.5 million song archive have already expressed some disquiet about royalties. TruSonic has a very limited pool for the 250,000 artists, based on the number of plays, but has said it may re-evaluate this." Oooh! Generous!
Usually I'm not much for the cheesy "Rock Against" festival shows but this looks like it might be interesting:
Axis of Justice Concert : July 17 at the Avalon
Jurassic 5, Pete Yorn, Serj Tankian (System of a Down), The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello), Brad Wilk (Audioslave), Knowledge (Ray Witter)
With that sort of weird mix, you're guaranteed a fight!
an open (and completely off-topic) letter to greg, the new singer for the dillinger escape plan.
re: my overwhelming sense of betrayal upon hearing your new opus "miss machine"
dear sir,
the tingling that i intially felt in my bikini area while listening to "highway robbery", the third song on your new album, was not ecstasy or even the first tremor in an especially painful bowel movement, but my prostate clenching like a baby's fist as you took a steaming, white-hot dump on the legacy of one the finest hardcore bands ever to wreck a stage. while imitating ironlung is an admirable and even heroic undertaking, you fail miserably, and not even america's favorite drug-addled phd candidate from new hampshire would write a song entitled "van damsel". you, sir, are a sun-bleached piece of dogshit. my apologies everyone--i had to get that off my chest.
taking off my cocktail dress in nine stages,
dan
Posted by: dan at July 12, 2004 11:19 PM
