i guess im floating: Worlds Largest Record Collection. If youve got $3 million and a place for 2.5 million records, keep an eye on this one.
A touching story. Sadly, I’m willing to bet that there quite a few people who give a damn, Paul. We just don’t have 3 million dollars. Check out this [...]
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Apple Closes In on Hollywood: Businessweek reports that Apple may be close to striking a deal with most of the major movie studios to provide movies for the iTunes store.
Apple may have had to compromise on a number of issues including pricing in order to get everyone on board. Apple has reportedly agreed to pay [...]
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Transformers Movie named the Most Pirated Film of 2007 - TFW2005: In a somewhat dubious honor, the filesharing news blog TorrentFreak has compiled a list of most pirated movies in 2007. According to a representative sample from one torrent site, Transformers topped the movie list for last year.
Ironically, Transformers sold over 190,000 HD DVDs in [...]
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R A D I O H E A D
Here was a really interesting one. I don’t often find out things about my favorite artists on digg, but low and behold I ran into the Pay What You Think It’s Worth digg on radiohead.com’s current promotion for the next album, In Rainbows.
Yeah, I did a [...]
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Lately, the RIAA has been on a high-profile campaign to get college students that the RIAA believes have been involved in illegal file trading to settle lawsuits against them at a “discount”. (They must feel bad about asking them to drop out). As part of this strategy, the company has tried to enlist universities to [...]
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The LA Times reports that England has disqualified Beck’s latest album “from appearing on sales charts because those extras [create your own album art] give it an ‘unfair advantage’ over less elaborate packages.” Ummm. WTF? Speaking of creative album art…
Directed by Ugly Pictures and animated by man vs. magnet (both with Curious Pictures), this video [...]
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This one’s probably not going to mean much of the typical mikull.com reader, but holy hell this is killer: Based on the rise and fall of Darby Crash, a founding member of the 1970’s L.A. punk band, The Germs… comes one fucking killer movie. What We Do is Secret. See myspace.com and youtube.com for more [...]
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The record industry may be on the verge of waving the white flag in front of Apple boss Steve Jobs, and abandoning its demand for iTunes to charge different prices for different songs. Negotiations between Apple and the four major music companies - with which iTunes deals all expire in the next two months - [...]
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1. October 18, 1975—Simon & Garfunkel
Saturday Night Live scored a musical coup on its second episode, when Paul Simon hosted and his old partner—and occasional enemy—Art Garfunkel dropped by for an impromptu run through “The Boxer.” Simon picks at the intro for a few extra bars, but the duo hits the first line perfectly in [...]
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Our friends in Agency (the band formerly known as Republic), whom many of you know includes our old friend Michael Scotto, is releasing their national debut March 7. Distributed exclusively by AERIA Records, the self titled debut will be available at Best Buy, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, CD Universe, Virgin Megastores, Tower Records, Target, Sam [...]
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