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Things to Buy: Nirvana Live at Reading

ryan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:05:18 +0000

Widely considered one of the best live concert recordings, Nirvana – Live at Reading is now available on CD, DVD, and MP3s. Highly recommended. Lala has it for $8.50.

I’ve been jamming on this all afternoon. One trip through the album and I bought it. God, they were good.

Breed – Nirvana

2009 SXSW Music Is Out

ryan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:20:51 +0000

As with previous years, the SXSW music has been released to the ‘net. And, like last year, it was up to the fans to seed a torrent of the 5 gigs of music (because it’s too hard for the organizers to promote their own event, apparently).

Well, the seeds are up and available for your downloading pleasure. Get them here.

[via Metafilter]

Pricing Fail

ryan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:36:39 +0000

Dear Amazon,

Fix this:

$0.99 x 10 < $9.99. I know it’s less than a dime, but come on. How hard is it to write a check for this?

Em, come back

ryan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:20:35 +0000

Guy Adams from The Independent tracks down Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers). A classic rise and fall story, but one that needs one more chapter. Come back, Slim, if not for yourself, then for Detroit. Lord knows that city needs a voice again.

Wow. Metallica's "All Nightmare Long" video

ryan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:58:01 +0000

I fell out of Metallica’s sway a while ago, giving up around Garage, Inc. But, as I09 said in their post today, “I am officially in love with Metallica again.” Well, at least for today.

This video is fantastic. Listening to the song without the video, it’s still a pretty decent song, but the video brings it to a entirely different, and better, level. It’s an alternate history, zombie, Cold War, sci-fi tour de force.

As with most Metallica, crank it up.

Official Metallica site for the video

Dear Amazon.com's MP3 Download Store…

ryan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:30:47 +0000

Dear Amazon.com’s MP3 Download Store,

Look, I really, really like you. I do; you’re great, sweetheart. No DRM. Quick downloads. You’re the cat’s meow.

But, can we talk about your title naming convention? I know that getting Led Zeppelin IV for $2 is a total steal (aside: it seriously is right now). But why, why baby, do you put that insipid adendum “(Album Version)” on so many damn tracks. I mean, thank god IV is only 8 tracks long, because I have to remove that crap. And I love buying MP3s from you. Which means I have to do that a lot.

Every purchase requires me to fix your damn title naming convention. I’m afraid if you order the lobster, I’ll have to remind you not to eat the shells, honey.

Ok, that was cruel. I think I’m In Like with you. But, if you could see through to stop tagging “(Album Version)” onto so many tracks, Sugar, this could be love.

Thanks. How about knocking me a kiss, eh?

The Price of Popularity

ryan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:24:19 +0000

Oh, and the download died after 510K. Whoops.