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12.06.09Apple to acquire Lala: the end of cheap DRM-free MP3 downloads?Money In our monopolistic world of online music, it seems bound to happen every time: just as another consumer-friendly strategy begins to take root, that strategy gets swallowed into oblivion through an acquisition. Such may be the confounding case of the little-known music retailer Lala, a company whose strategies and efforts I've long been a fan of personally. Apple, the New York Times reported on Friday, has agreed to purchase online music retailer Lala in what some analysts will see as a game-changing strategy on the part of Apple. Continue Reading...
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11.10.09In the “future of music”, will the casual music fan have a place?Are you a die-hard music fan? Are you the most dedicated to a core of independent artists, many of whom you feel you have developed a "personal" connection with thanks to social networks like Twitter, Facebook or MySpace? As the models for artist survival in the music industry widen and mutate, there's a growing focus on fans just like you -- the hard core, or the uber-fan, if you will. For fans like you, the world of music is yours to inherit and enjoy because, as you've already discovered, artists are starting to offer more and different ways to get ...
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09.21.08Burnlounge 3.0 | The Pyramid Scheme That Just Won’t DieWe've never been a fan of the Burnlounge v.1.0 or 2.0 (aka the "pyramid scheme" versions in which "store owners" were bilked of hundreds of thousands of dollars that they've never recouped). We've been infiltrated by Kool-aid sippers repeatedly defending the illicit financial practices of the once-notorious (and we thought dismantled) pyramid scheme, several of whose "store owners" were the subject of successful lawsuits filed by the Federal Trade Commission. Their CEO resigned in disgrace. Their website has been down for months now and most people figured that was that. So what does Burnlounge have up ...
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06.16.08Stream Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Today, Decide If You Like It, Buy It Tomorrow When You Decide You DoI don't normally post these but this record actually isn't too bad. I mean I probably wouldn't buy it personally but you'll probably dig it, right? I think Creaky Boards Coldplay have a fairly original take on music from time to time. Click Here To Listen To Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Click Here to buy Viva La Vida [cd|mp3] from Amazon. COLDPLAY - "VIVA LA VIDA" NORTH AMERICAN TOUR (all dates are subject to change) Date City Venue Public On Sale Date 7/14 Los Angeles, CA The Forum SOLD OUT 7/15 Los Angeles, CA The Forum SOLD OUT 7/18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion 6/14 7/19 ...
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06.05.08Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Has Leaked | Requests from EMI Stockholders Cause Clean Underwear ShortageSomeone at EMI is probably asking themselves right now, "What are we going to do?" That's because their big cash cow, yet another hotly-anticipated Coldplay album entitled Viva La Vida has leaked well ahead of its June 17th release date. Undoubtedly scrambling to figure out what has created this chaos, the stockholders of EMI and their gaggle of employees probably wish to hell this hadn't happened. As with the previous Coldplay album, sales of this record were (and still are) intended to boost EMI's third-quarter 2008 profits sufficiently to maintain (or, as they would hope, grow) the ...
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