http://www.sheeba.ca/store/

From the site:

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Like many, I feel restless and impatient with living in a world where people are made to feel like shoplifters rather than intelligent peoples with a good sense of balance. I want to treat people the way I’d like to be treated. ‘Dumbing UP’ (as opposed to ‘dumbing down’).

WHAT ARE SELF-DETERMINED TRANSACTIONS?
NOT donations
NOT pay-what-you-can
NOT guilt-trips
NOT tests of your integrity
ARE trans-actions

You decide what feels right to your gut. If you download for free, perhaps you’ll buy an extra CD at an indie band’s concert. Or if you don’t go with your gut feeling, you might sleep poorly, wake up grumpy, put your shoes on backwards and fall over. Whatever. You’ll know what to do.
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Sanity. Feels good, no?

word.

Frankly, it doesn’t matter if the music sucks. I like sticking it to a bunch of record execs.

And I’m not singling out Radiohead. That’s about what I’d pay for any band’s music when I have to provide the repro device.

and Yes, I am who you think I am. It’s pretty obvious considering my website. (with no actual reference to my board name, but duh. who else married another boardie and lives in Baltimore?

You’re right…except for e-mail in which I use a lot of linkage. And every morning Notes resets the browser choice. Fucking thing.

And I don’t get all this lossless arguments, either. We haven’t had lossless audio for like, ever. All forms of encoding have clipping issues, be it a master tape or a record. Why do you think that records have different speeds? No vinyl record can record with the fidelity of a magnetic tape or any digital encoding over 30… And 128>30.

If you want lossless encoding you want something with a laser firing through a crystal surface, and there’s barely a few light based choices to even play current vinyl, let alone something that accurate.

Besides, do you even have speakers for it?

Duh, “supposed to use IE”.

At my work we have to use a rotten piece of shit called Lotus Notes. Each morning it resets the browser it likes on my machine to IE6 despite the fact that I don’t use it and that my job actually requires lots of internet research, which is about ten times better with Firefox. Why? For some reason in our user agreement it specifies that Lotus Notes is supposed to use Firefox. Why IBM has an interest in that I don’t know, but they do.

Anyway, here’s a pretty cool article about Apple crushing the life out of Audion with iTunes.

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

apple–always the man, always treated like the cool kid.

mikey

Also, I have to second Billy Pilgrim’s first: the new Mekons album on Quarterstick is something other, even though I keep half expecting to hear Kathy Acker crawling up through London… It’s like Marc Bolan bitch-slapping Devendra Banhart then jamming with him after they both calm down. If Radiohead is still surprising people like that 20 years on down the road that double vinyl thing might just be worth more than the sentimental value.

I know of what you speak. The studio track of “Mohammeds Radio” was less interesting than most of Zevon’s other work. But once you’ve seen it live, you get it and can listen to the studio CD with a different view.

Of course, there’s a live version on “Stand in the Fire”, so you don’t have to…

mikey