Check out Dave Marsh's article on Ticketmaster's Stranglehold over Music & Politics where he examines Ticketmaster's new cap 8% cap on 'fan club' tickets (which don't have those up to 60% convenience fees tacked on). Also check out Nancies.org to see how this affects an act like Dave Matthews Band.
4:06:46 PM   []

If you ever rated or wrote a recommendation then you probably have some points and you can use those points to pick up either of those great albums.

Update: Congrats to chris_mahan and photojunkie for winning those two CDs. I'll hopefully have two more CDs up tomorrow (requests welcome).
3:11:11 PM   []

Viant, a research company tracking Internet piracy, on Wednesday estimated that between 400,000 and 600,000 film copies are illegally downloaded daily on the Internet, up at least 20 percent from last year.

But if you double the number that Doc points to last time someone made up an alarming figure like that then it means there's 2 petabytes being traded a day. That's A LOT (2^50 bytes*2) (i.e. too high to be realistic).

Paul points out that it must be the same movie because both he and Dave can't find back episodes of the West Wing. You guys might try looking/posting at CDROM-Guide where you can buy/trade for back episodes of popular TV shows. And of course it's just plain stupid that you can't legitimately buy the episodes.
2:00:54 PM   []

I was raised on TV, like so many of you I see around me. Nothing to live or die for. No religion, too.

All this leads to a common criticism of Clear Channel: that the company has slowly but methodically bled its stations of any kind of distinctive personality, that in the drive to hold down expenses the stations are losing their local identity.

Fortunately that drive to hold down expenses isn't working and Clear Channel is 'piling up an annual loss of $1.1 billion'. While a Clear Channel implosion would be fanatastic we both know another Big Business will step in and snap up their assets for $0.10 on the $1 and continue to tell us that Britney is all the culture we'll ever need of course until her 'burn score' is to high and we'll be sold another skinnier, younger, more sexual (yet more virginal), breastier girl.
1:35:06 PM   []

Finally! A big thanks to Scott who found and then scanned the Fairtunes article in Time (he says it's from the May 20, 2002 issue).

[insert snarky comment(s) about photo below]
12:59:16 PM   []