I am fairly certain that the completely nerdy older gentleman who did sports info/stats at my college is Jim Steinman's brother. [link]

Phil Spector's mug shot: [link]

He looks like he lost his precious.

Okay, it's now official. The lead singer of Midnight Oil is "dead". In his place we have the douchebag politician, Peter Garrett.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett said he had "some sympathy" for Senator Brown's predicament.

"But at the end of the day, if you are going into the business of taking court action to challenge decisions, then you are bound by the decisions that the court makes," Mr Garrett said.

Senator Bob Brown faced being disqualified from the Senate if he couldn't pay a 240k legal bill and had to declare bankruptcy. The legal bill came from a failed attempt to stop logging in the Wielangta forest in south-east Tasmania. Logging in the forest threatens endangered species including the Wedge-tailed eagle, Swift parrot and Wielangta stag beetle.

Are CDs Going The Way Of The 8-Track?

I didn't know that iTunes is now the nation's largest music distributor....

The song is over at Virgin Music Megastores.

The shuttering this weekend of Virgin’s last two stores - in Manhattan and Hollywood - marks the death of a once booming chain - and another nail in the coffin of the music CD, reports CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason.

CD sales nationwide are down by half since 2000. So Virgin’s parent company closed its 25 Megastores and is leasing the space to other businesses.

“Everything on these racks, though I don’t like to say it, is available on iTunes, is available on Amazon,” said Simon Wright, the CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group.

And that’s where music sales have shifted. Apple’s iTunes is now the nation’s largest music seller - with 20 percent of the market. Amazon has about 8 percent. And some studies show most music is now downloaded for free illegally.

Saw Street Sweeper Social Club's first full-length show last night.

Tom Morello is completely full of himself. [link] And completely justified in being full of himself.

I went to the Virgin Megastore a couple of weeks ago, and everything was 40% off, but 40% off the $18 cover price still seemed like a lot, if I only really cared about a couple of songs -- which I can get off iTunes for a couple of bucks a pop. It seems like it's more about the single/album issue than anything. At least, to me it is. If I'm buying for singles, no way am I paying full album price when I don't need to.

Hi, all. I haven't posted in here before, but I want to share... My niece's band, ThisMeansYou, won a contest - Metal Blade's "Search for the Next Great Metal Band" contest. She is awfully excited. The band won at Ozzfest a few years ago, and I'm not sure what that was about, but apparently there was a tv appearance. She also told me that their music is now available on iTunes and Pandora, which is even more exciting, to me.

So, if you're into metal, check out a few of their songs, and tell me what you think. I think they are really really good. Kim has wanted to be a rockstar since she was two. It would be amazing if they got a record deal!

crossposting with Natter, because I can't shut up

Music Emmett and I listened to while driving all over the South (via iPod and jack):

Guns 'N Roses
Nickelback
AC/DC
Snoop Dogg
Eminem
Outkast
Neutral Milk Hotel
Allman Brothers

Song we sang along with on the radio:

"All My Exes Live in Texas" - George Strait

Also, I went shopping at Wuxtry and bought vinyl there.

Excellent.