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Soft-Rock Infomercial Takes People Who Can't Sleep To A Relaxing Place


Finding music on television used to be easy (there was a channel that played these short movies called "music videos"). Nowadays, the best you can hope for are ambitious warblers getting mocked by "producers," the odd bit of indie rock in a cell phone commercial, and, if you stay up late, that dinosaur known as the music-compilation infomercial. Each month, intrepid insomniac Gabriel Boylan will watch the paid programming so you don't have to, and listen to the mammoth compendiums they offer to remind you that sometimes the best music can't be downloaded—it has to be mailed. More »