Archive for the ‘business’ Category

I’m switching back to vinyl

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Like most of you, I download a lot of music. People recommend stuff and they send it to you. What are you gonna do, say, "no, I'd rather not try this out first, I'll just drop $15 on the CD and hope it's good?" (Yeah, ...

Radiohead lets you nude up for $5.94

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Radiohead is working with iTunes to allow people to download each of the 5 "stems" that make up Nude (vocals, string fx, guitar, drum, and bass) and to remix their own song. While Trent Reznor beat them to the punch with remix.nin.com, RH will certainly get a ton ...

Don’t worry, R.E.M. didn’t sell out

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

When Windows95 came out (yes kids, way back in 1995), there was a minor kerfuffle that Stipe and Company turned down Bill Gates and the Microsoft Marketing Machine who wanted to use "It's the End of the Word As We Know It" for their commercials. Of course, The Rolling ...