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• A new pricing structure for music?
• Buy some bailout debt (diversify your bonds), but only after some research (treasurydirect)
• Instead of aggressively attacking your credit card debt, throw the money under the (proverbial) mattress instead.
• Fannie and Freddie dish out retention bonuses (for everybody else’s saftey)

Video of the song by the Flobots. The rest of the album is pretty solid. Pick it up.

Listening to Pandora in class (it is a work day) just now, and ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ (by Amber Pacific) came on. I thought that was a particularly wonderful moment.

Nine Inch Nails’ new record, The Slip, is available for completely free today. You don’t even have to figure out how much 37 pence is in dollars (73 cents).

Meanwhile, Radiohead will not be offering future mediocre releases in a similar, yet inferior, manner.

Reznor: 2

Radiohead: 0

Speaking on the missing billions ($) that used to be spent on music.

Since I get so much news from the internet (about 90-95% of my weekly news intake, which I feel is pretty substantial), I find April Fools Day particularly annoying.

Anyway, here are some interesting, true (I think) things from today.

• In spite of her reservations, Alice Walker supports Obama
• Ugh, the case for Radiohead
• Disturbingly large phalluses

This video made me look for the music. The song is called “List of Demands” by Saul Williams. Excellent album, by the way.

• Pay-Rod and Bruce Bowen are birds of a feather in my opinion.
• Thom York bad, Trent Reznor good; I only liked Kid A, anyways.
• Perhaps the best map ever made. The best part is when she (yes, she) compares Ludacris to Johnny Cash.

“upward of a billion files are swapped every month on peer-to-peer networks”

Never really used either Pandora nor Flixster, but so far it has been a productive morning:

• (music) - Walking With a Ghost, a live The White Stripes EP
• (music) - Wolfmother, Cold War Kids
• (film) - Lady Snowblood, Lady Vengence, Zatoichi, and True Romance

Though, I don’t really feel like Radiohead and The Strokes are similar to The White Stripes at all.

Also, I learned that album names are italicized, songs are set in single quotes, and artists are simply captialized.