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Posts Tagged “Really Bad Ideas”

Recording industry takes to the courts to once again claim that the act of ripping files from CDs to hard drives does, in fact, result in illegal copies of said CDs being made; consumers roll their eyes, say "If this is your way of convincing us to start giving you money again, it's really not going to work," go back to hunting for American Gangster on BitTorrent. [Ars Technica]

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Come Back, Bourdain, All Is Forgiven

Earlier today, Jess had a few choice words about Anthony Bourdain's cliché-ridden Spin back page this month. But that's nothing compared to these nearly 1,500 words of incoherent gibberish from the new biannual arts journal Paper Monument (a companion publication to the lit mag n+1) by one J.D. Daniels, who jumps right in by telling us, "Rock and roll is a music of mechanized sexuality. That's why ninety percent of it sounds like clocks fucking." Does it, now? More »

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The Most Embarrassing Attempt To Be "Down With The Kids" We've Seen All Day


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Meet The Poor Bastard Who Decided To Get A Zune Tattoo

Anyone wanna hook this guy up with that one dude who took the plunge and got some OK Cola ink in '94? We have a feeling they'll have a lot to talk about over the next few months. More »

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Today's Sign Of The Apocalypse: Music Criticism Goes "American Idol"

From today's New York Times piece on the Billboard blog-critic competition referenced above: More »