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!
Mary Travers, a striking figure of power and glamour in the early-1960s folk music movement, died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut after suffering from leukemia for several years. She was 72.
She was best known as the blond with the bangs who commanded the middle microphone with Peter, Paul and Mary, a trio that brought folk music from coffeehouses to top-40 radio.
Man, it seems like deaths are the main topic of news stories this week. May I ask that we cut it out for a little while?
I headed to Goodwill this morning to pick up some “new” vinyl records. Here’s what I came home with on this trip:
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.
My jaw dropped when I read this…
In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the (Recording Industry Association of America) maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.
The RIAA has clearly crossed over into the territory of alienating any music fans that they may have left. Some poor guy is sitting at home backing up his K-Fed and Britney “blockbusters”, that he bought, and you’re going to sue him? You have got to be kidding me! If I’m going to get sued for “ripping” CD’s that I bought to put on my computer and MP3 players, you can be guaranteed that I will not buy another RIAA backed album and will stick with the indies who live with the rest of us in the real world and realize that’s how we listen to music these days.
What’s next? Suing people for putting a CD in their computer to listen to it from the disc, just because it technically could be copied?
And I’m not even going to waste my breath pointing out how many ways this is just plain wrong and what sort of behavior this will encourge. Anyone with a grain of common sense can figure that one out on their own.
May everyone rest easier now…
Evel Knievel and Kanye West have worked it out. The 69-year-old iconic motorcycle daredevil said he and West met at his Clearwater condo recently. They settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel’s trademarked image in a popular West music video.
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