Archive for August, 2008
According to a New York Times article, the booklets that come with our music may become a thing of the past, due to increasing sales of digital music and decreasing sales of its hard copy brethren.
And it makes sense.
Most of the music I listen to every day has come to me through some sort [...]
Here’s something mildly related to yesterday’s post about the Allman Brothers suing their old label.
Turns out Virgin is suing 30 Seconds to Mars (Yes, that’s right. Not the other way around.) for contract violation. It seems the band signed a contract for 9 years (cough, wankers, cough) but left after 7, being as that’s the [...]
Southern rockers the Allman brothers are suing their label, UMG Recordings, for $13+ million. They charge they have been “digitally exploited,” not getting their fair share of money earned from iTunes downloads, ring tones, and CDs of their recordings from 1969 to 1980.
I’m not sure if anyone’s really surprised by this. Capitalism is capitalism, money [...]
Yesterday, Rolling Stone published an article about how singer-songwriter Jackson Browne is suing John McCain over the un-permissioned use of his song “Running On Empty” in a political campaign commercial. The ad was, you guessed it, mocking Obama’s urging people to properly inflate their tires.
Browne at a John Edwards rally
This isn’t the first time an [...]
