So, I know I got what I deserved for picking up the new double Foo Fighters. Im not a maniac of all things Foo, but I do like to check what Mr. Grohl is doing from time to time.
Anyhow, I get home, throw the disc into my computer and start thinking about posting something on RSN when the weirdest skipping and unplayble type noises start coming from my computer.
Seems as though our RCA/BMG (maybe the other major record labels as well) friends have a wonderful new collusive act with a company called
Sunncomm to thwart home taping.
The only problems with this, is that, me, the paying customer, cant use his own FREEKIN product. I dont want to hold and have some other computer talk to my computer about valid certificates...
The only similar story in this vein I can think of is last year's 'To The 5 Bouroughs" by the Beastie Boys which had some kind of intrusive spyware on it as well.
Fair Use is where its at my friends.. Im gonna have to listen to more
Negativland save us from this shit!
I have stolen from you because I am confused and afraid, and intrigued by confusion and fear. I don't know whether this John Zorn record alienates me or fascinates me. I certainly can't decide based on excerpts, and I probably won't have even the most tentative guess until I've listened to it several times, more or less against my existing will. If I decide it's mind-expanding genius, I'll happily pay for it. If I decide it's stochastic crap my old parameters justifiably excluded, I'll delete it. If you believed in your music, and in me, you'd take that deal in an instant. My patience costs me dearly, after all, and yours costs you nothing. But you don't believe in your music. Most of the time you don't even know what it is. And you certainly don't know me, or where my curiosity leads or misleads me. So you invest nothing, and you shouldn't be surprised by your returns.