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I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.~Jay Gould
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Sat May 12, 2012 at 11:24:49 AM MST
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A reader asks:
I have a question for you and you don't have to answer it and I realize your answer may be complicated but here it goes...
What is your stance on file sharing, P2P sharing, blogs hosting downloads for your music? Are you against it? Do you view it as stealing? Do you view it as publicity? Do you think it's good to give people access to your music any way that you can? Or, do you just not care? Is your record label or some other management responsible for handling these things?
Thanks! by: pattymcc
I am ok with it, it is like the olde argument about cassettes to me but hyperspaced. It is stealing, I guess, but music is meant to be heard. So I'm not a 'copyfighter' or whatever, if the RIAA wants to try and clamp down, good luck to them. Drag City try to do what they can to protect their files, requesting take downs etc. Sometimes it is easier to just get on iTunes etc and quickly pay 99 cents, sometimes it is not. Sometimes you can afford it, sometimes not. I'd rather that the person hear what they're looking for.
The greatest thing about this to me is the death of the fucking ALBUM. I'll be glad to see that finally replaced by playlists and mix tapes. A world of Greatest Hits!
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Tue May 08, 2012 at 07:00:00 AM MST
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What is the source of the famous tale about the disputed arms of Chaucer being used for beating a Franciscan friar? A spurious letter attributed to Fleet Street (in its eternal coat of "low") ironically defends the unseemly and bawdy Chaucer. There was also trouble in the Daies of Loue where yet it seemed that Chaucer was, in some manner, only of the multitude. And as it may appear that he greatly complained of his own rashness in his hatred of betrayal yet he ten times more loudly complained to his empty purse:
Beth hevy ageyn my purse, noon certes.
But wight complaine that ye be light?
For your mercy shew me hevy chere,
Me were mote and thus I be leyd bere.
For which I dye and thus I crye.
Many historians once thought this poem was not the work of Chaucer. Some had actually enumerated it as assigned to Gower. Yet such pieces which seem not to have an important position, or were poetic afterthoughts, are among thirty-five-and-several poems now recently authenticated and reprinted in facsimile. Were Chaucer to have determined who had the right to bear this trial of mistaken authorship he would have perhaps suggested that it was only fair that a nearly armigerous* gentleman such as himself would be the proper choice to have borne it.
*a person entitled to use a coat of arms
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Fri May 04, 2012 at 07:00:00 AM MST
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 | Getting a pair of Galaxy Foamposites will be like winning the lotto. Unless you got a CIA or FBI connection it seems like getting a pair has tensions escalating; people are willing to do anything in case you didn't notice and the sneaker world has been going insane.
Bill of sale filled out already, give you my car, keys, clean signed title you give me your pair of Galaxy Foams. They come looking to trade a car for a pair.
Running around with those in high school? What the f*ck are those? They were like cars on our feet because everybody would like the aesthetics. Wear Foams and break them in, adjust the timeless silhouette and the many colorways it has been surfaced in to the contours of your feet. |
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Sun May 06, 2012 at 07:00:00 AM MST
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DR. J was hired by his former team, The Philadelphia 76'ers, as a strategic adviser. Dr. J will offer counsel to the 'Sixers and act as a good-will ambassador.
"It made sense to me at this stage of my life," Dr. J said. "I'm excited about this relationship and where it can go in the seasons ahead. I always enjoy coming back to Philadelphia where I had so many great memories."
Friday, prior to Game 3 in the 'Sixers playoff series against the Bulls, Dr. J received a standing ovation.
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