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To buy or not to buy (mp3s)…

Okay, I admit it.  I pay for my music.  And for a variety of reasons: I work at a university, and so if I want to download during work hours, I wouldn’t want to do so illegally (you must know that in the US, universities are targeted heavily by the RIAA!); I like having the […]

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Offensive album covers, over the years

In the wake of the ridiculously absurd British blocking of the Wikipedia entry for Scorpions’ “Virgin Killer” [warning: full-frontal underage female nudity], it has come to my attention that there are plenty of other album covers out there just ripe for re-censorship. Take Blind Faith‘s one and only album.  While the prepubescent girl in question […]

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Misplaced priorities.

174 killed in Mumbai. 200 killed in Jos, Nigeria. 8 killed in Karachi. Gaza experiencing a humanitarian crisis. Airports in Bangkok are almost entirely shut down. And what’s in the news here in the States? Obama’s choosing Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.