"You can't download the concert ticket," Panic At The Disco drummer Spencer Smith
told MTV News when he was talking about why the band's live experience was how the band really gauged itself. In the era of torrenting and Sendspacing, people who are still hoping to make some sort of profit from music are looking at things that you
can't download as a way to bring back the "real" aspects of the artform—but in their quest for tangible objects, and not virtual experiences, they're kind of overusing the whole "you can't download" construction After the jump, a list of items that have fallen victim to this cliche, and probably will continue to until the Internet's backbone gets fat enough to fit things like 12-inch slabs of vinyl or life-size replicas of 3 Doors Down through it or the entire industry collapses, whichever comes first.
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Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he gives the year's rock charts a midway-mark overview.
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Surely I'm not the only person who, upon seeing the headline "Beck, Wilco, Panic set for SF music festival," thinks that it's kind of cool that Panic at the Disco are going to give at least one of this summer's festivals something different—only to click on said article and find out that the "Panic" in question is actually Widespread Panic, which I guess makes more sense give that Jack Johnson is also playing the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in August. But still, meh. (Click on the logo for the currently announced lineup.) [
