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Darkthrone is his mate who used to be a hip poser but is now just as at home at the local pub with the bogans as he is with his old mates.

Cradle Of Filth is the loud, popular dude who dresses like a poof and acts like a bogan that all the chicks love but you know yourself is a dud root. You hang around the bar in a group of all the other girls who know the same thing, sneering and gossiping. … See More

Leviathan is the weird looking guy who you’re not quite sure about but you find out, without any prompting from you friends, is actually great in bed.

Blut Aus Nord is the guy who you can see is into totally kinky shit but you don’t realise how kinky until you’re back at his place. You’ll have a great story for your mates afterwards.

Anaal Nathrakh is the really loud, out-of-control guy who gets arrested early in the evening but somehow manages to get back to the party with an amazing story that you don’t want to believe but for some reason do.

Electric Wizard the the cool, stoner dude everyone can’t help but dig but at the back of your mind you can’t help but think he’s starting to repeat himself just a bit too much.

And all the underground BM groups who just release limited tapes are the young kids who can’t get into the club and never get invited to the party so they hang around the park, drink cheap goon and imagine themselves having a better time than you.

Booo to the christian rock.. It would make me implode…in am “I’m melting kinda way”

Ishould get some Skull candy headphones… do they have a nice bass response??

**Hugs from Australia**

Since (a) downloads were added to the UK charts (b) physical singles have all but dried up, leaving the chart entirely determined by downloads, the number of sales required is rather larger than it used to be.

So David, what metal do you have in the crates o’ doom? ;)

DPP, just another form of DRM, is a desperate move to prop-up a dying business model.

When I say “free” above, I mean free as in free speech — I don’t mind paying money for good music and think artists deserve support.
And when I say “do what I want with it”, I mean make a back-up, play it on my PDA, keep a copy on my laptop, burn it to CD to play in the car, etc. It’s gotta work with and be transferable between existing digital devices. Oh, and not have it remotely tampered with or deleted on whim, as suckers with a Kindle recently discovered.

I have a 7″ of The Laughing Gnome so I can play it at Goth clubs to people whi think they’ve got up to dance to “Let’s Dance”. You should try it. Nobody at all ever objects in the slightest.

You can buy a halfway-decent electric guitar for $100. Add $40 for the 1/4″ instrument->USB connector. So why not make a “Guitar Hero Expert Edition” for people who actually want to learn guitar and have more fun practicing? And who don’t want to be wankers playing with toy guitars. Make it usable as an at-home practice amp too (since all the necessary code would be written already), and you justify the cost of adapter+game immediately.

You could even make it compatible with Guitar Hero controllers, so you don’t lose the social aspect for friends who don’t actually play guitar.

Anyway, I’m just rambling. Maybe something like this exists already.

Still, there are one or two worthwhile ideas in there. Name your extreme metal band after the international villains du jour - Banking. Or, if you’re less cosmopolitan, Republicans. Axolotl Carcass has a certain ring to it, as does Carrot Slays Republican (a bit absurdist that one, I think. Probably fans of Deerhoof). Personally I’d probably go with Patty Stench, the Northern Flashers (nice image), or (my personal favourite) Ouch.

And let’s say nothing about the inclusion of Discharge and Hole, OK?

(I guess I’ll find out the hard way what WP does to this comment.)

Seen similar in Second Life - people screaming (boycotts etc) about someone else ripping off their clothing design - which was photoshopped from an actual real fashion store. Stealing from the fashion store wasn’t a problem.

[*] Not as a mass storage device. I hear it’ll do them if you talk Microsoft MTP to it.

Look at chip music, and the ay-riders etc. Not a new thing..

They do. Every now and then they think of something to try against the second-hand market. They recently put forward a plan to make a royalty payable on all second-hand recordings sold.

“Hi Dave. How’s Eng-er-lund?”

The weather in London is identical to Melbourne. I mean, IDENTICAL. Except no forty-degree days in summer.

“Let’s take it from my personal experience. My site (www.janisian.com ) gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received about 100 hits a month from people who’d downloaded Society’s Child or At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they’d found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But? that translates into $2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn’t include the ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows.”

Janis, you go girl.

By the way, why don’t record companies object to the massive amounts of second-hand recordings that are sold? The overwhelming majority of my collection is from opshops, Dixon’s etc.

Hi Dave. How’s Eng-er-lund?

But I’ve got my leather jacket, I’ve got my notepad, I’ve got my pen. Don’t have glasses, but I do have contacts. Time to rocknerd!

That list of allowed HTML tags below claims to work but didn’t in the submit queue. Let’s test: bold italic emphasised strong … seems to work in the preview … let’s see what happens when I hit ‘add’.