Comments on: the immediacy of want.

By: Jack90

Jack90 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:55:32 +0000

mmm… I love the free weekly single from iTunes. Keeps me partially entertained for the week.

By: Ben Perkins

Ben Perkins — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:59:52 +0000

Internet radio indeed rocks, but to me they’re mostly US-centred. It’s lucky that here in the UK radio is still of a fantastic quality (BBC Radio 1 on a weekday night and XFM London in particular are superb to listen to, as is BBC Radio 4) compared to what I’ve heard of radio over your end. We don’t have ClearChannel! I guess internet radio and podcasting hasn’t been as popular over here because our radio hasn’t been diluuted into a crappy mush.

And while I’m rubbing things in about how the British media’s so much better than the US media, don’t you have any decent indie record stores to get hard-to-find CDs and such? I’ve got a fantastic indie store in my nearest town, and it’s got most things you’d ever think of. But no Pillows. Yet.

Although KCRW’s really good.

By: fredrin

fredrin — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:44:22 +0000

“A visitor to your weblog fredart blogbits has automatically been banned by posting more than the allowed number of comments in the last 200 seconds. This has been done to prevent a malicious script from overwhelming your
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I’m pretty sure you aren’t a bot, Eric ^^;; Not sure what caused this, but i’ll take care of it later tonight, so no worries

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:24:23 +0000

I had the opportunity to be a part of the Music Genome Project at http://www.pandora.com, which I think is going to be the next best thing in internet radio.

Pandora is this really nifty music program that has a library of music that is broken down by music “genomes” that people have painstakingly identified. You suggest an artist or a song that you like, and the program creates a radio station for you with other similar bands and songs, with the idea that you will be exposed to music that you haven’t heard before.

For every song they play you can say whether you like it or don’t like it, and it will start narrowing the genre down for you based on your feedback. You can add more than one type of music to each station, and as far as I know you can make unlimited stations, so the variety of things you can listen to is pretty astounding. I was in on the public beta, but I think they are going to be offering it through a subsription form soon enough.

My taste in music is sometimes similar to yours, so you may want to check and see if you can still get in on the beta (ends this month) or try it when it comes out. Wow, I didn’t mean to write a novel, but apparently I did. Yay for being bored at work.

By: vexx

vexx — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:11:51 +0000

There are several legit locations to get Japanese CDs but you have to pay the shipping cost. I just stack up several items since its the same cost for 1 or 4….

Examples are: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/ or http://www.nippon-export.com
As always, YMMV.

I’m in the try then buy group… I won’t buy if I haven’t heard it via d/l - mp3 or other means but I *will* buy it if I like it. Hear that ya stupid morons up in the corporate structure? I hardly buy any domestic music anymore….