Of late I find myself in rather a strange place. What I work on pretty much follows whatever my present employer currently needs. I’ve done pretty much everything – from device drivers to fancy web applications – and by this time have touched pretty much every major genre in programming. My starting interest in software [...]
ongoing · On Selling Music Finally, I remain astonished that the subscription model hasn’t caught on; it seems like awfully low-hanging fruit. There are any number of artists I’d subscribe to for ten or twenty bucks a year in exchange for an irregular flow of new material; live cuts, studio work, collaborations, whatsoever, along with [...]
Q: DEVO + Disney = ? – – – – A: DEV2.0 In retrospect, I guess Devo’s lyrics were squeaky-clean compared to … almost everything else current. But still … Disney and Devo?? Performed by kids?! The really weird bit is that this actually makes sense.
Walked over the local food court for lunch a bit after noon on one day last week. Weather was hot, humid and oppressive – the quote about “mad dogs and Englishmen” came to mind (not that the dog minded the weather in the least). Entering the outdoor eating area, walked past a singer (between songs). [...]
Somehow I doubt “as little as $10/month” rental music is going to fly. Pay to rent your music? Right. For that price you could buy at least 6 over-priced CDs per year, every year. Frankly I have a hard time finding that much good new music every year. From outfits like Magnatune you could buy [...]
More new music off Magnatune. Cannot explain why I like this, but I do… The Wretch: painful ambient industrial noise. Used the RIAA Radar site to find a new Pat Benatar album from a non-RIAA member (I hope). Bought the Iron & Wine album after seeing the video on iTunes and checking out the label. [...]
Heard a bit of music on iTunes that I would to buy – but wanted to check that I would not be buying from an RIAA member. Turns out the not all the labels listed on the RIAA site are members, so how do I know who to avoid?? BTW – the video on iTunes [...]
One more reason to buy music, but not music CDs from a major label. Labels to dampen CD burning? | CNET News.com You can’t do what they are attempting to do – control copying – without degrading the information (music) on the disk. I don’t like to idea of buying a music CD with deliberately [...]