UPDATE: As I was just informed in an e-mail from someone at Warner, the CD Tom Breihan bought is apparently defective. Hooray, Warner isn’t Sony BMG–at least not yet! Now about those unplayable promo CDs… More »
Today, this e-mail went out to people who bought tickets for Morrissey’s Saturday night show at New York’s Madison Square Garden–which didn’t happen, thanks to the throat infection that’s plagued the singer for the past week and a half (via The Music Slut): *At Live Nation, we want to create… More »
Avril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Thing may be the No. 1 record in the country this week, but were her sales numbers inflated by listeners’ desire to hear Avril sing that she’s not just “the mother… princess,” but “the motherfucking princess”? A MySpace blog post about one Avril fan’s attempts to buy the explicit version of Thing is making us wonder, since it was through that post–and nowhere else–that we found out Lavigne’s label, SonyBMG, is only making the uncensored version of the album available to those who pony up for the pricier CD/DVD edition:
Yesterday I went to buy Avril Lavigne’s new record “The Best Damn Thing” (shut up) for $9.99. They also had a “deluxe limited edition” that featured a bonus DVD for $16.99. I have no interest in paying extra for a DVD I will never watch so I passed, opting to buy the single disc edition instead.
When I popped the record into my CD player I was surprised to hear that I purchased the edited version, the record wasn’t labeled as edited so I thought it was just a mistake. I walked back into Best Buy and asked to exchange it for the uncensored version, they said I couldn’t because it was already opened.
Last night’s 30 Rock referenced a blast from our anti-piracy past: The 1978 episode of What’s Happening!! in which Raj and the gang are busted for bootlegging a Doobie Brothers concert. More »
Tucked inside the Recording Industry Association of America’s Web site is a defense of CD pricing that proclaims how people who still pay for music are getting a good deal for their money. More »
The online viral-marketing world had a minor shakeup today, when the subtly named company PayPerPost announced that it would require its contracted bloggers to disclose the sponsorship of certain posts, whether in the posts themselves or via a site-wide disclaimer. More »
We’ve been posting about deals at the going-out-of-business Tower Records a lot lately, but a blog post by Idolator commenter mackro made us realize that we should place a “buyer beware” warning over them. More »
Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »
Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »
Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »