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The Music Industry's Most Amusing Myth: It Can't Compete With Free
26 November 2007If the industry reduces their failure down to pricing competition, then they will always lose to the lowest price.
iPodding in Tokyo
25 March 2007Some of the stuff I saw in Akihabara made me wonder what else might be out there…
SPIN-ing Wrong: Why Lowering the Price on Compact Discs Is a Bad Idea
8 February 2007if you think even major indies such as Matador could survive on wholesale prices of $3, you’re nuts
A Tale of Two Halls of Fame
19 January 2007The rock industry’s power players love to peddle iconography associated with freedom, rebellion and anti-establishment thinking but when it comes to selecting members for its hall of fame, cloak-and-dagger machinations rule the day.
The Dean and the Generation Gap
27 October 2006It’s also frightening that, during this current period of immense choice and massive price competition, there are people out there wishing there was less. If there’s a generation gap, that’s the biggest one of all.
Take Me Out of the Ball Game
3 April 2006From undulating butts lighting up panoramic scoreboards to BARRY BONDS’ troublesome pursuit of the all-time home run record to a cynical steroids investigation, baseball has never strayed so far from its idyllic roots.
What I Think of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
17 March 2006“Next to the SEX PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain.” [sic]
Coffee, Tea, or MP3
3 February 2006So, Starbucks is looking into the MP3 business. Is there any more seemingly obvious news in the world?
Hitting For Average: Why the Major Labels Will Go Down Swinging
30 January 2006These companies need their legal teams, they need their accounting departments, they need expensive executives to oversee their corporations.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 17
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Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell (deluxe edition) (Epitaph)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
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Billie Holiday – Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Everest – Ghost Notes (Vapor)
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Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (double CD) (Fontana/UNI)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)