GregKNicholson

Gling-Gló is actually a pretty good album.

Don't expect weird experimental jazz though—it's largely straight big-band (albeit with a band of three).

I had not thought of that.

The entire thing is CC-BY-NC-SA–licensed, meaning you're allowed to share it (and do other stuff with it too).

This means that getting a torrent of the whole thing for free from The Pirate Bay (for example) is not illicit.

*This* means that people like me, who weren't fans of and/or hadn't knowingly heard any music by NIN, can become fans of NIN.

Giving music away for free works.

(Also, fans of the whole ambient/soundscape style should know about Kahvi Collective: http://kahvi.org – their stuff is all CC-licensed too.)

uninformed media who uncritically repeat record companies' disinformation.

it simply isn't. What's illegal is infringing copyright; an uploader does this when they redistribute a file without permission.

“Handling stolen goods” doesn't apply either: for something to have been stolen, its rightful owner has to have been deprived of it. The copyright holder owns the copyright in a recording, which no-one is claiming to transfer.

Besides which, easy distribution of music is good for record companies—more people will hear, and therefore want to buy, their music. The record companies seem to think that anyone who listens to a free copy of a song would pay for it if they couldn't get it for free, instead of just not listening to the song.

So while record companies are within their rights to try to prevent sharing of their copyrighted music, doing so is both futile and ill-conceived.

Read this first: http://williambswygart.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/all-i-wanted-was-you-to-take-me-out/

*Now* go.

a good title for a Feist B-sides album.

to download—sorry: drownload something by Laura Marling, what with the title containing “Drownload” and “Laura Marling” and all, but I leave DiSsatisfied.

Damn heteronormative Playchild franchise.

(and Kevin Drew was in the Nearly pile).

they would scare Johnny Depp's ears.

We're all heterosexual males here, and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar!

point

It was £6.97 in Woolworths :imsocool:

Tones of Town and White Chalk are on the the to-buy list though.

+1

That hidden track (“Lost in Time”) is smashing.

Most people suck.

at that there pictured gig: they sound a lot more like the last three albums (more pop, country) than the (post-)punk genius of the first two.

those DiS speakers *staring* at my soul. 'Twas comforting to know they cared.

...under what definition of “day”?

is how you do it. Piss easy really.

but apt.

speaking to The Sun.

Surely no more context is required.

but now apparently he's been arrested, or appeared in court or something (memory of BBCi entertainment pages vague; motivation to research absent).

So is The Game still AWOL, or was he down the back of the sofa?

not so much those last two. But the rest.

is how erudite all internet-based discussions should be.

and I thought it was a damn fine lyric, too.

your perfect double entendre!

until the mention of Rockettothesky.

Let's describe her as “like Stina Nordenstam (or, less accurately but more recognisably, like Regina Spektor) done in the style of Guillemots' I Saw Such Things In My Sleep EP” for the uninitiated. Let's also point those same uninitiated towards http://myspace.com/rockettothesky , shall we? Yes, let's.

Also, bonus points to me for imparting the knowledge that the mentioned audaciously-rhyming song is “A cute lovesong, please”. (No-one shall argue with this, for they're all at Leeds and Reading. Bastards.)

inarguably stonked.

(Me too!)

24 was on BBC Two, not Channel 4! Sheesh!

But apart from that, this is genius.

it can't be as good as Ys, surely?

you bunch of immoralists

Now how can Mel C wet and sticky be a bad mental image?

Right, but what about *this* record?

<em>Accept my HTML, bitches!</em>

Innocence was moved up from third to second single because <a href="http://unit.bjork.com/innocence/">the video competition</a> went so well and received so many good submissions.

Well actually, that's the one thing it *does* do... which explains *why* it's full of shite.

they already know where Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and Newcastle are.

makes my brain want to cry.

I maintain that channel Five need to use said song to advertise said channel. (Hey, maybe they could use it to pimp Neighbours, what with the whole Australia connection thing.)

It says so right on the front.

that when Jesus does decide to show up again after all this time, it's to add his two penneth on New Young Pony Club.

- it managed to avoid zero.

(...and judging by the score, it contains 1.4 good songs (or at the very least 0.7, if we were rounding scores up very generously).)

Declare Independence is ace, and ought to be a single forthwith. Look— http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/05/15/20:52:58/ —these people like it, and they're Coachellists. So there.

—to make http://www.drownedinsound.com/static_images/ratings/8.gif as famous as the Mona Lisa.

Wax cylinders FTW

'cos that picture there looks like “The Stare”—not only in a lol-pun-on-band-name-versus-artwork way but also in an I-seriously-think-that-letter-looks-a-bit-like-a-T way.

So it's just a little bit slower than it needs to be and is sung out-of-key by a bloke who sounds terminally bored and/or depressed, then?

MAKE THINGS MORE TRUE!