Hard disks are cheap; cultural preservation is forever. (Mind you, I still so so so want one of these.) Bonus: The earliest known sound
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Gets you jumping like a real live wire.
When Uwe Boll* calls [*may not be 100% true], Richard O’Brien listens. (Or not.) ‘Cos adaptations make the world go round. (1944 Marxist sociology
Read MoreMagnetically-energised oxygenated mineral water for dogs.
The drink of audiophiles. The only thing I can see wrong is it’s far too cheap. (Spotted by Wechsler.) (Bonus link: a magnetic thing
Read MoreYak Shaving Day!
Exact Audio Copy is the Chuck Norris of CD rippers. It turned a rotted old demo CD-R by the Deadites (from back when CD-Rs
Read MoreThere is nothing more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ethernet binge.
I can’t wait for peer-to-peer drug networks. Those headphone audiophools were onto something. If only Anthony Burgess had thought of “personal stereos.” (spotted by
Read MoreQuis indagator Æthiopicus qui sicut mechana futuit?
Obituary of the year.
Read MoreYou don’t own me.
It’s scientifically proven: keeping everything in copyright forever leads to a tragedy of the anticommons. (Despite Cliff Richard’s pleas on behalf of continuing royalties
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Just spell my name right.
The general public just refuse to see copying as morally wrong if it’s not for money. But attribution is another matter. (Look at the
Read MoreThe power of a nation lies in its youth.
Fiction about rock’n’roll is usually dire. I think John Hawkes-Reed has nailed it, though.
Read MoreRewind before return.
While you’re saving up for your cable.
Read MoreNewspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away.
Magazines and newspapers are a zombie technology. But Esquire is trying to work past that. I give it three hours after hitting the stands
Read MoreFairy gold.
Yahoo is reimbursing its fairy gold victims, but people have finally noticed that just the same applies to iTunes. Apple are already messing about
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Poochie.
In the MPAA’s consumer assault, consider the shiny 5¼” disk the Maginot Line. DVD sales are slipping for the first time since 1997. And
Read MoreThe alcohol loves you whilst turning you blue.
Lots more old Party Fears scans up, courtesy Nick Potter, who decided I was being a slackarse and so got on with it himself.
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Shake the disease.
If you keep doing obnoxious things to lots and lots of people, they may start talking. And then you discover some of them are
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Declare the pennies on your eyes.
ACTA is the “everything and a pony” Christmas wish list of the media companies. Everything down to the Internet becomes illegal. Such treaties rely
Read MoreWarm leatherette.
From 1956: the lost work of genius of car stereo. You can tell it’s genius from its independent rediscovery (check the video).
Read MoreRewired for sound.
Of course, the real alternative to the iPod is a cheap Chinese MP3 player labeled “MP4” (a blatant lie you wish the MPEG LA
Read MoreWelcome to the antisocial.
The Edsel of music players, its very name signifying miserable failure, has broken the heart of even its greatest fan.
Read MoreBut I said no, no, no … well, maybe just one.
It’s time to clean up your act when even Keith Richards suggests you may be overdoing it.
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Fool me six times, shame on my parents.
Yahoo! Music is shutting down, and its DRM servers with it. All four of you who bought a track there are losing it shortly.
Read MoreA good heart these days is hard to buy.
The BPI’s latest wheeze is a deal with six large British ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and Sky) to send “hundreds
Read MoreNixon. Four more years!
Going by the trailer, the Watchmen movie might not actually suck. The costumes are right, the scenes are right … the sculpture on Mars
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Baby Grace (a horrid cassette).
The cassette: not quite dead!
Read MoreSlave to the Economist.
“I love The Economist. It’s like a really rational guy on crack.” They finally read The Pirate’s Dilemma (think of pirates as researching new
Read MoreThis is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
If you’re on LiveJournal, there’s now a Rocknerd syndicated feed. I’m also making regular summary posts to aus.music. I’m also trying out the Subscribe2
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Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.
A pile of tapes by Delia Derbyshire — that’s Miss Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop herself — have shown up retrieved from her attic. Proper
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The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.
It’s hard to convince someone they’re being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it: “I made a list of the
Read MoreJamendo is not a complete waste of your ears.
As slushpiles go, the stuff on Jamendo is surprisingly not an excretory avalanche of hopelessly stunted clueless ambition devoid of talent. In the bleepy
Read MoreThat’s it, the Internet’s over. You can all go home now.
There’s cultural preservation, and then there’s the K-Tel blog. “A place for those K-Tel style classics.”
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