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so i downloaded the new mog-o-matic. i think it's erasing all the stuff from mog that i had on MY computer, and cataloguing all the stuff on THIS computer, which is NOT mine, so that sucks, but i've been downloading so much stuff on here that it's starting to resemble mine, minus the exhaustive collecting of every single song several bands have ever produced. hmm. it seems to be faster, though, so that's cool.
also, there's a rumor that a black lips are playing a smalllll show in houston but i can't confirm it to save my life. balls.
AND chris walla, colin meloy, and david bazan are all releasing full length solo albums pretty recently, which i think is pretty awesome. is it just me or has there been some great music coming out for the past....two years or so?
AND the new mountain goats is so goddamn fantastic.
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use
By Marc Fisher Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 30, 2007; M05
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing. Still, hardly a month goes by without a news release from the industry's lobby, the Recording Industry Association of America, touting a new wave of letters to college students and others demanding a settlement payment and threatening a legal battle. Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: 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 industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings. "I couldn't believe it when I read that," says Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who represents six clients who have been sued by the RIAA. "The basic principle in the law is that you have to distribute actual physical copies to be guilty of violating copyright. But recently, the industry has been going around saying that even a personal copy on your computer is a violation." RIAA's hard-line position seems clear. Its Web site says: "If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing. You're breaking the law and you could be held legally liable for thousands of dollars in damages." They're not kidding. In October, after a trial in Minnesota - the first time the industry has made its case before a federal jury - Jammie Thomas was ordered to pay $220,000 to the big record companies. That's $9,250 for each of 24 songs she was accused of sharing online. Whether customers may copy their CDs onto their computers - an act at the very heart of the digital revolution - has a murky legal foundation, the RIAA argues. The industry's own Web site says that making a personal copy of a CD that you bought legitimately may not be a legal right, but it "won't usually raise concerns," as long as you don't give away the music or lend it to anyone. ... The Howell case was not the first time the industry has argued that making a personal copy from a legally purchased CD is illegal. At the Thomas trial in Minnesota, Sony BMG's chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, testified that "when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." Copying a song you bought is "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy,' " she said. But lawyers for consumers point to a series of court rulings over the last few decades that found no violation of copyright law in the use of VCRs and other devices to time-shift TV programs; that is, to make personal copies for the purpose of making portable a legally obtained recording. ... The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only "created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies," Beckerman says. "Every problem they're trying to solve is worse now than when they started." The industry "will continue to bring lawsuits" against those who "ignore years of warnings," RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said in a statement. "It's not our first choice, but it's a necessary part of the equation. There are consequences for breaking the law." And, perhaps, for firing up your computer.??
full article can be found here
-- am i the only one who thinks this is completely ridiculous? i mean, i'm the first to admit that i download most of the music that i "own", but even after i buy a goddamn cd i'm not even allowed to put it on my computer? nazis.
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....using bully tactics against a few poor saps like this lady in Minnesota for 24 friggin songs....
since they were so out of touch and lost total control of their industry, the only weapons they have left at this point are to put a few scapecoats in the news and a release statements like this to spread the fear ....
if only they'd learn to embrace instead of resist
its absolutely absurd
hello, friends. i haven't been around much (at all!) for awhile, but moving halfway across the country can do that to a person. anyhow.
these are the bands that i cannot stop listening to and that you should be addicted to also:
-sunset rubdown. this is the best music i have heard in an awfully long time. it's innovative, creative, sometimes a little insane. he can do good-time rock, or he can put a song in the middle of the album that always, always, ALWAYS, gives my best friend the willies if she's high. the lead singer is spencer krug, which brings us to: -wolf parade. krug is also the lead singer of this band, who more people have heard of and maybe more people are inclined to like. wolf parade is still awesome. i am in love with spencer krug. wolf parade is more rock than sunset rubdown. that's just fine with me. -okkervil river. WHO DOESN'T LOVE THIS BAND? their latest album, the stage names, is pretty fantastic. their last album, black sheep boy, is fucking unbelievable. -devendra banhart. it took me years to get into this guy, and i finally have in a big way. hmm. i'd listen to "seahorse" off his latest. it's fantastic. -THE MOUNTAIN GOATS. ok, i haven't been able to stop listening to the mountain goats in like three years. but their new album just leaked, and the impossible has been managed; i.e. i love john darnielle even more. surely that's unhealthy. -the thermals. i'm just never sure exactly how popular this band is; i know they don't make a ton of money, but i also know that i know a ton of people that love them. anyways, they're good time indie rock and they're angry but it's not annoying like it's managed to become with bands lately who write songs about the problems with society (hah). -two gallants. they're just awesome. and there are harmonicas. and they're awesome. -gogol bordello. they're insane. a group of eastern european immigrants, my friend ana from the ukraine assures me that they say absurd and ridiculous things in russian from time to time. luckily they say a lot of that shit in english too. -the unicorns. this is one of those bands where the members seem so nuts that you're almost a little worried, but not really because clearly they have enough control over their faculties to make great music. -bob dylan. i don't know, i'm in love with him. seen "i'm not there"? it's awesome. -modest mouse. i just saw them in el paso for my birthday and i am fucking so in fucking love with fucking isaac brock. he sang into the guitar. INTO THE GUITAR. i came a little, i'll be honest. -georgie james! the drummer from q and not u got together with this other chick and they made a record, and it is georgie james. that's neither of their names. it's indie pop rock and it's delightful. -the bounds stems. they are quintessentially awesome. -shipwreck. i just got this album the other day, "rabbit in the kitchen with a new dress on", and i don't know ANYTHING about this band. except that this record kicks ass. -MAN MAN. holy shit, they are so fucking great. i saw them live not long ago and i was instantly, one hundred percent in love. seriously, they're all completely insane and even their record is nuts, but wait till you seem them live. i peed a little.
also, there are several houston bands i've been getting into; some aren't THAT great on album, but they all put on a great show: -the medicine show/sideshow tramps - they're just pretty much awesome. they have weird instruments sometimes, they can play a saw, a trashcan, and you see their guitars and harmonicas and you think "oh, it's like old crow whatever music, maybe they'll cover dylan", and i mean, they do, but they are rock stars. they fucking just rock your face off. the first time we saw them as a whole band i was blown away; two of them play acoustic sets at my job on thursdays, so i was unprepared. -the born liars. honestly, i really dig them. they definitely put on one of the best shows i've seen in houston. AND their lead singer, jimmy, looks ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE jason molina (songs: ohia, magnolia electric co.). it is WEIRD. i've told him this, and he doesn't know who that is. i'd probably still hit it, though. heh. -spain colored orange. i thought they were going to suck, and instead they were great. their lead singer plays the piano, it's good. -bring back the guns. it's weird for me because they sound like a DC band, d-plan and fugazi -esque, but they are in houston. it's disconcerting; i'm used to dc bands being, you know, from dc. -the extraordinaires. they are not from houston at all, in fact they might be from new york, but i SAW them in houston and was totally caught off guard by how much i really, really liked them. -the a-sides. hmm. also not from houston, i just saw them there. if you get a chance, go see them. -black black gold. i've hung out with these guys some, and they're cool. their music is more mellow, but really great if you're high.
the black lips are coming to rudyard's, i think i just peed a little.
that's all i've got. and hey, the new mog looks good, and it finally doesn't take me 20 minutes to load a page, so i should be back soon.
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I'd ask what you've been up to but I'm afraid I would hear about you coming again. ;)
Did you see Colin Meloy has a solo album coming in April....
Oh, shit...there you go again. ewwwww
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I think good music is always lurking about. Just sometimes you just got to dig deeper.
was just checking out your list of logged tunes from the MoM. Did you ever check out the stuff Mirah was doing with the Black Cat Orchestra? Good stuff..