June 2008
Steve Albini: The Problem With Music →
zoya:
from 1993
Similar to my last link, but with even more authority.
May 2008
Courtney Love Does the Math →
This seminal editorial is from June 2000. Yeah, eight years ago. Back when Napster was still relevant. The numbers have probably changed a little, but everyone still needs to read this.
Someone reblogged my previous post, incredulous that I didn’t just buy the music I was searching for (and had yet to hear).
The idea is to get a feel for a band before throwing money at their record...
Just had a band recommended to me by a friend. Went to Hype Machine to check them out, but no luck—all tracks unplayable. Found some on YouTube, but I can’t let the whole page of search results play consecutively like on HM. Guess that means I’m going to have to find and pirate their whole goddamn discography and not feel bad about it because they backed me into this corner.
Guess...
Sex Sells, Duh →
“A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification—even when they were making decisions about money, soda, and candy.”
“Nursed on MySpace profiles and reality television, many young people today are...”
– Claire Hoffman, here
“In college you don’t yet have to face the hardest kind of work:...”
– Paul Graham, in this excellent essay
And in fashion news... →
Michelle Malkin threatens Duncan Donuts with boycott for ad featuring keffiyeh-wearing Rachael Ray.
(alt. link title: A story full of people I loathe!)
ps: This also means the keffiyeh is completely played out, hipsters.
Leave some goddamn breadcrumbs, you dipshits
Many tumblogs (including this one) are primarily collections of interesting items found elsewhere on the internet, and providing source links is a major benefit to one’s audience—such citations allow visitors to spider outwards if they come across an item that strikes their fancy.
Additionally, source links are the due diligence (i.e. Page Rank boost, extra site traffic) that authors hope...
samreich:
Despite posting my Muxtape, I had to...
Ratatat — “Shempi”
My current fav...
Women who insist that facial hair is unpleasant say the same about period sex, about cum, about public gropings and lingering, primal scents. I have no time for those who deny themselves all the heady little details of passion. I’d sooner hire a surgeon who is afraid of blood than entertain a mate who didn’t delight in the sticky, brutish aspects of fornication.
Death From Above 1979 — “Do It!”...
