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The Flaming Lips Want Your Name In Their Six-Hour Song
Music Buzz For only $100 dollars Wayne Coyne will include your name in the next big Flaming Lips
gimmickepic production. The money will be donated to the Humane Society and a music program at the University of Central Oklahoma, so that's good. (via pitchfork.com)
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Image: 30 Years Of Record Sales In One GIF
Simple but impressive. It's good to see LP's are gaining back some popularity! (via evolver.fm)
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Image: Who’s Getting Paid In The Music Industry
Still think a music career is an easy path to a blinged-out life? Don't believe the hype. A whole lot of folks have to get paid before the musician does.
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Image: Sony Liked It So Much They Put A Block On It
Beyonce is a pirate! Or that's what Sony claims she is, since she's been putting her videos on her YouTube channel. As of right now, you can't view any of the videos on her official channel. Stay classy Sony!
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Link: [ Graph ] Why It’s Not Downloads that’s Killing Music Sales.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games...
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Music Sales in the U.K. are down, but despite the claims of major record companies, the problem is not illegal file sharing.
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Losing Our Virgins
Business Buzz All of Virgin's remaining U.S. Megastores will shutdown and liquidate this summer. The sad news is, this isn't even an issue of the music industry dying or anything like that. The property owners just want to make more money on rent than Virgin would pay. Quite the virginity auction, if you ask me.
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Roger Wallis
Tech Buzz Retired Stockholm professor Roger Wallis is on the fast track to becoming a cult Internet hero thanks to his performance at the ongoing Pirate Bay trial. A copyright law specialist who has studied how cassette tapes changed music creation despite strong resistance from the music industry, Wallis is testifying that entertainment execs are greatly exaggerating the losses they claim they've incurred due to file-sharing websites. Asked by the judge whether he wanted compensation for his testimony yesterday, he quipped that people could send bouquets to his wife. So far, she's received more than $5,000 worth of flowers.
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Link: Muzak Files for Bankruptcy
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10463112/1/muzak-files-for...
Muzak Holdings LLC, the premiere creators of elevator music, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. Ugh. If elevator conversations had to get any more awkward, now you can't even discuss the silly music!
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Link: Muxtape is Back!
Muxtape, once the internet's bestest musical mixtapin' site, is back from the dead! Currently featuring bands including Francis and the Lights, Of Montreal, Girl Talk, Dan Deacon, Reggie Watts and more, Muxtape's new purpose is to be a place for “bands to promote their music and listeners to create mixes.” Welcome back, old friend.
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SlotMusic
Tech Buzz In a last ditch effort to revive itself, the music industry is introducing an alternative way of delivering music known as SlotMusic. 4 major record labels will be releasing select albums on 1GB Sandisk (SD) cards without Digital Rights Management (DRM). They’ll most likely sell for the same as a CD. Note to Sandisk and record labels, people steal music b/c it’s free not because of their aversion to the Compact Disc.
