The Sensible

• "Oink didn't offer solutions; it highlighted the problems of over-priced, over-controlled music elsewhere. Oink was an online paradise for music fans. The only people who could truly be mad at it were the ones directly profiting from the sale of digital or physical music. (Like myself! F%5k!)" [Mudd Up!]

The Slightly More Dramatic

• "I have very firm stand about the insistence of the music industry to desperately implement copyright issues in a world that has already changed. The music industry should change its old, and obviously outdated practice and begin to change with the times. Oink, you will be forever remembered." [Have Laptop Will Travel]

The Oh-Come-On-Already

• "Don't get me wrong for the title of this post, I don't think that OiNK's administrator is a pirate, but I definitely believe that the IFPI is worse than those bastards that charge for the distribution of copyrighted material. They've managed to hijack OiNK's website, to put on their propaganda, and all of this without ANY real legal base. Is this an ethic behavior?" [Leo Lambertini from a post entitled "IFPI Is Worse Than Pirates" and just slightly worse than copyright holders apparenty]

• "I woke up to find some very bad news today. Oink.cd, arguably one of the most loved and most comprehensive music tracker on earth was shut down by the Establishment just a few hours ago. October 23, 2007 will now live in infamy as the day when the haven for people who actually have good music tastes was effectively closed. This leaves thousands of music aficionados homeless." [Indie Music Chatter]

• "1. A cute avatar is a must. In the spirit of the old site, It'd be really sweet if everyone could keep the cute avatars up." [OiNK's Pink Palace Memorial Forum where you must now sadly register to get to the really weepy posts]

• "I will miss OiNK a lot and i wish 'OiNK' (the person) whatever his real name is the the best of luck in defending himself against the bunch of lies they will change him with!
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win" Mahatma Gandhi [Releaselog]

(It's the Gandhi quote that really puts it over the top.)

• "Sorry if this has already been posted, but I'm following the San Diego fires right now, and this is just another devastation right on top of it." [Oh No They Didn't]
• "Now that OiNK is gone, where shall we get our pre-release fix? Where can we so easily unearth new bands to hype?" [I Guess I'm Floating]

• "In fact, as we often mentioned, if you were an international law enforcement agency or a record company spook seeking to create the world's greatest filesharing entrapment scheme, you probably couldn't have done much better than Oink. Let the conspiracy theories begin." [On The Download]
• "Now, 180,000 users won't be able to spread those great new bands to their friends, and people will stop buying CDs and the record industry will die just like it was going to all along. Thanks a lot, you fucking pigs." [Sam @ BrooklynVegan]

Thankfully, there are some people out there who are optimistic:

• "Can't be long before the code for running your own OiNK pops up somewhere, right? We can have an informal meetup/support group somewhere. Just pick a bar in the comments and we'll plan." [Stereogum]
• "RIP until the next one comes around. There will always be another one." [MetaFilter]

Surely this is going to get even more entertaining as the day goes on, right? I might have to do another post on this later, although it'll be hard to beat that San Diego fire comment.

- Finally, the secret appeal of Black Kids revealed: it's a pregancy fetish thing. [musicmattersman]
- Apparently a live performance by M.I.A. induces spontaneous orgasm, turns water into wine, locates missing socks, and performs sundry other miracles. [The Sky Report]
- Free bagels might have actually made sitting through Vampire Weekend worth it. [Fader]
- Deerhunter: Slightly less annoying than usual. (Actually that's not what we heard at all.) [Spinner]

- Robots' innards: A lot more interesting than Scarlett Johansson. [Boing Boing]
- Bjork gets political. [eBlips]
- Crowded House's set sounds like it played host to every "Hey, Asshole!" submission we've received, ever. [Because Lisa Said So]
- Getting sick in the desert: A first-hand account. [skeet on mischa]
- The fifteen-minute clock on this festival may very well be at 14:59. [Teddy & Moo's Celebrity Pictures And Gossip]
- How do Coachella attendees afford their rock and roll lifestyle, anyway? [Useless Things]

- Another show that we wish we'd attended: Lambchop with the Tosca String Quartet. [Stereogum]
- Perry Farrell's WTF-list affair invites a few more people, including Wayne Coyne Kramer. [Sound Of The City]
- The Spring Break effect, 1: "some dickhead at the diesel party is wearing a pinjata on his head and violently flailing his arms, punching girls and stuff." [Central Village]
- Aha! We thought we saw Kirsten Dunst! [17 dots]

[photo via gorilla vs. bear]

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- Jay Smooth's videoblog calls out the boneheaded reporters at Atlanta's Fox affiliate, redefines the word "snitch." [hiphopmusic.com]
- "The fact that record labels CAN NOT break music without mixtape deejays is a problem for some in power. The fact that A list artists are dealing directly with popular mixtape deejays is a problem for those in power. With the advent of new technology, the DJ in 2007 has all but perched to move to higher levels and seriously change the game." [Davey D's Hip Hop Blog]

More reactions after the jump.

- "This raid is the first time the RIAA has gone directly after a big-name mixtape DJ, and they've gone after probably the single biggest name in that world. So maybe I'm just being naive here, but I don't think the raid represents a sea change in the music industry's tolerance of mixtapes, mostly because the music industry doesn't employ any evil masterminds smart enough to orchestrate a sweeping change in policy like that. More likely, it's just another example of the industry's staggering incompetence and disorganization, a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing." [Status Ain't Hood]
- "If you think all this shit is wrong, don't spend your time decrying the RIAA, or loudly proclaiming that music should be free when bands ask that you please not post the music they have made, or pretending that all your disclaimers and justifications make what you're doing legal. Pressure labels that support mixtapes and MP3blogs and mashups and all those sorts of mutually beneficial uses of copyrighted material to lobby to have the laws changed. You have a relationship with labels? Great. Write them an e-mail and tell them to support copyright reform. Tell them that the double standard they've supported lets them have it both ways while sending mixtape makers to prison." [Clap Clap Blog]
- "DJ Drama himself is signed to Atlantic Records, so its not like they weren't aware of what he was doing. Many artists even have "underground provisions" in their record contracts that explicitly allow them to work with third parties to put out promotional mixtapes. This isn't a case of an employee running off with company property and making a fast buck off of it on the black market, this is an employee being told by his company that part of his job is to go out and sell that property on the street corner. " [33 Jones]

- The "I can't install this damn software" pain is felt by users and their computers. [FLX-TECH]
- The Zune Marketplace ushers in a new Microsoft quirk: the White Screen Of Death. [CrunchGear]
- Zunes are not flying off the shelves in Paramus. [Ka-Ching! On The Money With Dylan Ratigan]
- Get ready for the Zune Wikipedia wars. [Gadgetopia]
- What if you gave a launch party for a product ... and no copies of that product showed up? You'd have last night's Queens of the Stone Age show in New York. [Coast vs Coast]
- TI plays the Zune launch party in Atlanta. Really, those pictures say one thing to us: He should have given the Zune team some styling tips. [Platform|Launch|Action]
- Give a kid a Zune, and you'll make him cry like Rick Santorum's kid. [Anil Dash]

Reports from last weekend's Vegoose festival, which boasted a ferris wheel, sets by Tom Petty and the Killers, and lots of hippies (above), are filtering into the blogosphere.

- Ticket sales were light, perhaps because people knew that someone would be there with a digital recorder at the ready. [Live Music Blog]
- My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James channeled his inner Gallagher at set's end. No, we don't mean one of the Oasis members. [Super Dee's House]
- Fiona Apple's name gives some people the munchies. [Du Glas' MySpace blog]
- Breaking news: People who don't look like fans of hip-hop can like the Roots. [pink_lemons]
- Another shocking development: Hippies now sport dreadlocks. [talcexploration]
- Costumes in the crowd: Towelie, a dancing Pope, a Double Dare contestant, and a couple of Hunter S. Thompsons. [Title in progress]
- Vegoose: Probably not the best place to learn that you may be allergic to pot smoke. [tarawr]

My Chemical Romance celebrated the release of The Black Parade with a show at New York City's Webster Hall last night, and bloggers were there—although not all of them were 100% won over by the not-quite-full show:

- Over on MySpace, the kids are happy and filled with exclamation points. [Cassandra's MySpace blog | Dan's MySpace blog]
- Lesson learned: It's okay for post-adolescents to full-on adore Gerard Way and company. We feel so much better now, really. [the simple mission]
- This entry is more about living the VIP life than the show itself, but we're putting it here because we totally sympathize with its author's quandary. [britnstereo]
- So they're the biggest band in the world right now ... but where was everyone? [Pop Is Dead - College radio that cares!]
- One way to kill a show's mood: Thank a label president. And then a street team. Wait, are we agreeing with the Rolling Stone blog? What? [Rolling Stone Rock Daily]

- "whoever's running that show now is surely misguided, foolish and well, let's be honest, entirely predictable." [The Music Slut]
- "The last straw for me was his comparing a line from a song to a George W. Bush quote about accepting Christ as your savior." [Sound On The Sound]
- "Unfortunately, eight paragraphs of comedy gold does not make up for shit taste in music." [Web Vomit]
- "A more effective technique might have been to film a video in which the actual CD was used to bludgeon effigies of Dodge and GvB." [blogsarefordogs.com]
- "How many times does Pitchfork mention bloggers in reviews of buzz bands they love?" [I Guess I'm Floating]

Reports have been trickling in from the Houston area about a Friday night show by Saddle Creek duo Two Gallants that was brought to a halt by police responding to a noise complaint. According to reports, in the confrontation that followed, two people were Tasered, including a 14-year-old boy; there are multiple videos of the evening on YouTube, and in a few, the Taser is clearly audible. A collection of reactions to the incident, and thoughts on its root causes, is below. (Thanks to My Old Kentucky Blog for the initial tip.)

- Comprehensive overview of the incident from someone who was at the show, including video, photos, and a link to a comment by a MySpace user whose 14-year-old son was Tasered. [cool tapes' MySpace Blog]
- A concertgoer offers her account of being arrested and spending the night in jail. [the freewheelin' neo crunch katie ford/2211516's MySpace Blog]
- An attendee who shot footage of the police breaks down, frame-by-frame, his camera being knocked to the ground by an officer. [Live Live Music]
- Fans post photo and videos to the band's official site. [two gallants... message board.]
- On developers and gentrification leading to noise complaints in trendy neighborhoods. [Houston So Real]
- Is this incident a harbinger of a wider crackdown on live music in Houston? [Not A Significant Bullet]

British blogosphere sensation Lily Allen made her U.S. live debut last night, playing a short set at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City as a teaser for her debut album, which comes out on Capitol early next year. Naturally, all the NYC musicbloggers who actually leave the house were there, composing witty rejoinders in their head from the moment she hit the stage. We scoured Google Blogsearch this morning for reactions to the show; the verdict was decidedly mixed, although the word "expectations" kept popping up.

- "I'm not saying she's "the next Arcade Fire". I'm just saying that based on past bad experiences with similar artists, she exceeded expectations." [Brooklyn Vegan]
- "Don't get me wrong, I still love the songs. But the live show didn't bring me anywhere new." [Yeti Don't Dance]
- "The rest of us were politely waiting to see if the little songstress that could would measure up to her enormous hype-or at the very least, to see if she was as annoying as her blinking MySpace profile." [The Modern Age]
- "An unseasonably warm October day and a set of appropriately lowered expectations could have you thinking little Lil'd brought a bit of summer back with her." [Heart On A Stick]
- "The spirit would move her into wagging arms and booty-twirls for song intros, but those moves soon would be muted by the weight of her perception of our expectations." [Stereogum]
- "she wouldn't even have a career on this side of the pond without us, and so it was with great pleasure that her liveynessness master blastered our eggspectations." [Thighs Wide Shut]
- "The lesson of the day: Listen to Lily Allen in the comfort of your own home...skip her live act...it's almost, disappointing." [she's obsessed]

[Video from not fat, the blog]

- Tampons are an effective way to stop nosebleeds. [ultra8201]
- The "contact high" theory is a myth. [I'll Be The Juddge Of That]
- You can never be too overdressed, too underdressed, or too rained-on ... unless you're Tom Petty. [theblog]
- Admitting to liking John Mayer on your blog ensures that a collective freak-out in comments section will ensue. [Stereogum]