Less than a week ago I whined about the very lovely last.fm becoming a media corporations trendy new lapdog rather than trying to go it alone and expressed just how unlikely it was that I’d be prepared to shell out money to them. This morning my blue icon had gone grey and my last.fm page [...]
corporate rock sucks
May 302007
Once again it’s sad to be reminded that the Internet is nothing but a bunch of sharks cirlcing every promising start-up with a desire to “buying credibility” rather than establishing it. Last.fm have now succumbed to the desire to be a part of something bigger rather than carrying on being something special and unique in [...]
Nov 082006
I sort of hate how I keep picking on The Decemberists because deep down I think they’re probably a good bunch of people and what’s happening is just the standard shit that happens when you sign to a major label. A few years ago I signed up to a “a relatively unobtrusive once a month [...]
Jun 152006
I recently uploaded to youtube a video of Luna playing Lovedust on the Conan O’Brien show from a few years back – and while I am of course NOT the copyright holder and therefore WAS breaking the youtube terms and conditions I thought that as it was a low res video of virtually no resale [...]
This week I discovered that social networking horror MySpace is owned by the atrocious News International (which already makes my love of The Simpsons, Futurama, The X-Files etc. difficult). Not, of course that I’m anywhere near being a a fan of MySpace. The very lovely Flickr jumped when Yahoo clicked their fingers, the Decemberists happily [...]
I bought the Coltrane/Monk CD last year and was disappointed that it had “Copy Control” and that Blue Note had decided to treat me like a thief. I pledged to never buy another copy-protected CD and this is making my journey into jazz all the more problematic. I went to Amazon today to buy A [...]
Arghhh – having taken the no doubt substantial wedge of cash from Capitol I’d liked to think that The Decemberists heart was still with their fans but it seems that it might only be with their RICH and/or GULLIBLE fans. Colin Meloy – having just completed a solo tour apparently has a few copies of [...]
I have the audio cassettes, vinyl, I upgraded to CDs, I bough the “Essential” compilation and now Billy Bragg is releasing a great big fat box set of his early releases – packed with extras and a couple of DVDs. How many times do I have to own “Talking With The Taxman…”? And this is [...]
OK – so it requires me to be a little more careful about what I buy as I rarely research beforehand and have been surprised and disappointed by a few of my purchases but I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM) (via Boing Boing). I feel [...]
The Decemberists @ ULU – 17th Nov 2005 Originally uploaded by grange85. Rumours abound that the Decemberists are about to sign to a major label (Capitol) (via donewaiting.com) – I worry at the prospect and here’s why Majors think “How many records CAN we sell” (to make as much money as possible – for US [...]
