I would just like to posit that the death of the music industry is not necessarily a bad thing.

We're obviously not experiencing the death of music, as iPod sales attest.

It's easier and cheaper than ever to both record and distribute your music.

The fact that six companies aren't controlling ninety percent of it and signing bands to ruinous deals isn't that awful.

I would just like to posit that the death of the music industry is not necessarily a bad thing.

I had a conversation with a kid who said he worked for a Hollywood Video and that places like Netflix (which I love) are damaging actual movie rental stores. It's a matter of recognising a change in product delivery and then finding ways to adjust accordingly.

Right, I'd much rather have Netflix than bowdlerizing Blockbuster.

For the industry, having the artists turning more of a profit than the suits just makes sense.

down with large record labels!!!

or something.

Elvis Costello is playing at Hillary Clinton's 60th birthday party/fundraiser later this month: [link]

There's probably a joke to be made involving some Costello lyrics, but I'm too busy to think of one....

There's probably a joke to be made involving some Costello lyrics, but I'm too busy to think of one....

"Oh, I just don't know where to begin...."

Anyone else downloaded the new Radiohead? I'm... underwhelmed.

Artist Steve McLaughlin compiled all the Beatles albums and compressed them to 1 hour. The end result takes you on a trip thats far surpasses the hallucigenity of the gay strawberry fields. Even better, one person recompressed several tracks...

eta: The compression was 800%, timewise....

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Awesome. The compression is of the type that doesn't have a shift in pitch. Listening to one of the uncompressed tracks was fascinating, as you can hear what was lost when the thing was originally compres