Via The Wall Street Journal:

Britain’s High Court ordered record company EMI to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band’s original albums.

Pink Floyd said its contract prohibited selling the tracks “unbundled” from their original records. Judge Andrew Morritt backed the band Thursday, saying the contract protected “the artistic integrity of the albums.”

Score one for the concept album!

I headed to Goodwill this morning to pick up some “new” vinyl records.  Here’s what I came home with on this trip:

• Johnny Cash – Happiness Is You (Columbia CS 9337), 1966
• Perry Como – The Perry Como Christmas Album (RCA LSP-4016), 1968
• Kimbo Records Presents Early Childhood – Series 5 Christmas Fantasy (KLP-7005), 1970?
• Kimbo Records Presents Early Childhood – Series 8 Friends of the Sea (KLP-7008), 1970?
• The Royal Choral Society – Yuletide Hymns and Carols (RCA LCB-1044), year unknown
• Lil Scrappy – Gangsta Gangsta (BME Recordings/Reprise Records PRO-A-101788), 2006 [This is for Jeff's enjoyment.]

As a fun sidenote, 9 times out of 10 you can find either a Christmas record or a Kenny Rogers record…and sometimes Kenny’s Christmas album.  If your local thrift shop only has one or two albums in stock, it’s a good chance that it’s one of these. (And occasionally John Denver.)

I haven’t bought or listened to a Nine Inch Nails album/CD since high school, but I do think it’s cool that they’re going Creative Commons with Ghosts I-IV and The Slip.  And guess what?  People are still buying the CDs too.