Support Record Store Day!

Tomorrow, Saturday the 19th of April, is Record Store Day.  Get off your butt, log off of iTunes, get out of the house, and go buy a record!  (Album, CD, whatever floats your boat.)  I hope the link is working by the time you click on it.  At the time I posted it wasn’t working worth a darn.
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That Didn’t Take Long: iTunes Now #1

On February 26th iTunes moved into 2nd amongst music retailers.  And I said this:
“(Behind Wal-Mart.  Which sucks, because I’m ready for iTunes to be #1.  Wal-Mart carries a crappy, streamlined, force-fed selection of music appropriate only for fans of top 40, pop, and country-western music. No, no, and no.)  iTunes will pass Wal-Mart eventually.”
Welp, now [...]

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Apple is #2 at Something Again

You know, I’ve long maintained that the most amazing thing Apple has pulled out of its hat isn’t any of its lovely desktop or laptop computers, not it’s operating system, not any of the nonstop stream of iPods, not the Apple Stores, and not the iPhone.

It’s iTunes.  ‘Twas announced today that iTunes is now the [...]

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CDs Still Sell, If Your Music Doesn’t Suck

 Over and over we (well, I… read about the decline of CD sales.  The music industry is in a tizzy!  No one buys CDs anymore!  Downloads are killing the album!
Here’s the case study to re-disrupt that entire situation. 

Radiohead breaks new ground buy allowing people to pay any price they’d like, or pay nothing, to download [...]

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Radiohead is Coming to Indianapolis!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let this be true.  One of my favorite bands in the world, and the artist #1 on my list of “bands I have to see before I die.”  I’m in no hurry to die, mind you, but I really want to see Radiohead.
 By the way, My Old Kentucky Blog is terrific.  Where’s it [...]

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Apple Fans Buy More, Better Stuff

It turns out that not only do Apple/Mac-heads spend more money on their computers, but they spend more money on certain other things as well. Like music downloads and CDs.
“According to NPD’s quarterly Digital Music Monitor, in the third quarter of 2007 half of all Mac users had paid to download music tracks from sites [...]

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Dear Santa

Just to keep things simple, I’ve let RollingStone compile my Tech Wish List for me this year. Anything off this list will do just fine, thanks:
iPod Touch: Man, this thing is handsome.  Not very practical for working out at the gym or bouncing around in my laptop bag from the office to the car to [...]

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