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Nowhere does it mention in this article that Radiohead played live with REM on 'Leave', it mentions that 'Polyethylene 1 & 2' is a song made of two distict parts much like 'Leave' by REM. Oh and Radiohead (well Thom and Johnny) covered one of Portishead's new tracks on their website a short while back.

Steve Albini got it right in his article 'the problem with music'. The problem lies with the music industry itself.

That I don't illegally download music myself. In fact I don't download music at all, I prefer the physical product in high quality.

It's friday afternoon and I'm at work so I have neither the time or energy to construct a full criticism of this article but basically I think it is the biggest pile of bullshit I have read on DiS. The statistics are half baked and not grounded in reality, the solutions suggested are completely unworkable. Stick to commenting on the music itself and leave the illegal downloading debate to the tech section on BBC News. Cheers.

...Mogwai used to use pseudonyms. Martin's was Bionic because of his pacemaker. When Brendan O'Hare drummed for them he was given the name 'The Relic' on account of his age. Other names were Plasmatron and Captain Meat, but I can't remember who used them.