This is fucked up. The way I understood it, you had the option of paying 99 cents for the usual version, or $1.29 for the hi-res one. Seems simple enough.  They exist side by side.  You just choose which one you want.  But NO! So I upgrade my iTunes software, and then search for one […]

Believe it or not, there was a time when most people didn’t think music sucked, when they paid attention, when music drove the culture.  Before the labels were owned by fat cats blaming their audience for not buying their overpriced, overproduced, overmassaged cartoon acts. Culture has changed.  Stars are no longer unreachable.  Rather they’re in […]

DRM might be the story in the mainstream press, but what sticks in my craw is the hit to Steve Jobs’ credibility. What we hate about politicians is fiscal interests, i.e. donors, hold sway over elected officials’ opinions.  There is no Mr. Smith in Washington, speaking from the heart, always doing the right thing.  Today […]

Why the fuck should they cost more? One small step for mankind, and one half-step back.  It would be like Neil Armstrong getting to the moon and not getting out.  I mean if you’re going to go all that way… This is the kind of bullshit pussyfooting that got the labels into hot water to […]