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gleuschk : Lyle Lovett sells millions, earns nothing | Entertainment | Reuters - Lyle Lovett says he has "never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires.
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - interesting
deusx : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - "Prince fans have organized to urge him to relent in his legal fights to control images and photographs of himself."
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10 month ago
gleuschk : David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars - with charts and graphs! it's SCIENCE!
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11 month ago
deusx : HijiNKS ENSUE a geek webcomic - updated monday and thursday » Blog Archive » Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel - "Our kids will laugh when we’re 60 and we don’t know which button turns on the garbage disposal and which one vents plasma from the starboard nacelles."
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17 month ago
gleuschk : Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog by Clive Thompson - Jonathan Coulton, OKGo, and the Hold Steady
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19 month ago
43folders : Lily Allen slates Apple's iTunes tactics - So — what? — Lily Allen is mad because her label couldn't _buy_ her onto the iTunes home page, as w/most outlets? THIS constitutes "bullying?" Lame.
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43folders : Sales of CDs are falling faster than you can say iPod - "They manufacture and distribute plastic. Of course they have to put something on the plastic to make it more appealing -- but the music is secondary."
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22 month ago
43folders : The Record Industry's Piracy Law, Circa 1900 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - That Edison knew how to write him a EULA. [via: BB]
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27 month ago
merlinmann : CD-Rs Taped to a Pole on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Band posts free CD-Rs with gig flyers. A little AOL? Sure, but what a clever way to get the word out. The $16 store-bought CD seems dumber to me every day.
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45 month ago
plasticbag : Together in electric dreams: statistical analysis used to determine hit songs - "From unsigned acts dreaming in their garage, to multinationals such as Sony and Universal, everyone is clandestinely using a new and controversial technology to gain an edge on their competitors."
ricmac : Very interesting Guardian article about pop music hit prediction software - "...the record biz, once that bastion of wayward creative flair, is succumbing to the plain old-fashioned science of statistical analysis."
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plasticbag : Buzz Anderson writes a measured response to some of the recent hysteria over Apple's use of DRM - I find many people's positions around this stuff incomprehensibly absolutist. There are too many different perspectives to expect any eventual position to be completely free of compromise, accomodation or cost for someone involved.
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plasticbag : John Peel tribute on Radio 4's Front Row - A particularly interesting tribute to John Peel including Andy Kershaw's comments that just three weeks ago John Peel had said that he felt marginalised by Radio 1 and that the late nights were killing him...
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