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• Reasons To Not Listen To Coldplay Fresh off the Sony rootkit fiasco, EMI/Virgin Records has commanded that no one listen to the new Coldplay album - but they won’t tell you that until after you’ve given them money. “This CD can’t be burnt onto a CD or hard disc, nor can it be converted to an MP3″ and “This CD may not
• Anyone know a good source for downloadin… Anyone know a good source for downloading, local, independent music. Specifically, I’m looking for Minnesota-based or MN, WI, NoDak, SoDak, IA music. Thanks Update 27 April 2007: I’ve Googled for answer to this question and come up with a number of local music directory projects - some clearly abandon, others just useless. All of these projects (alive
• Tuesday’s Triple Play - Let’s Go Shopping  The day after Thanksgiving (or Halloween, or Arbor Day, or St. Patrick’s Day) marks the start of the holiday shopping season. This week’s Tuesday Triple Play is dedicated to the entertainment of retail. High at Home Depot from Minneapolis’ Diesel Jenny IKEA from Jonathan Coulton’s Smoking Monkey Sandbox [real] from Too Much Joy’s Cereal Killers Money from Michael Koppelman
• Reliving My Past Lives So, rewind a week or so Jen asks; “What’s this $40 charge for Susy Q Hat Co?” Me: “Susy Q? Huh? I have no idea….Oh, I ordered some Too Much Joy bootlegs and their tour/video DVD.” Three discs, 2 from 1993 and the third from 1991 loaded into the iTunes a few days ago. I’ve been rocking out
• Sam’s a Genius - National Geographic Lullabies Before Bedtime A couple weeks after Cooper was born, Sam sent over National Geographic Around the World Lullabies. Of course, it went straight into Cooper’s playlist on the iPod. Tonight Cooper was inconsolable. None of the usual settling down techniques were working and we were scratching our heads with what to do. Attempting to think strategically between