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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20)

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December 21, 2009, 10:39am

The Roots w/ Guests - Every Jimmy Fallon Performance (Video / MP3)

Via @questlove

Have at it, folks!

December 18, 2009, 10:15pm

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Jazz Substandards.

On an entirely unrelated note, I feel like “My Frumpy Valentine” would be a decent zinger against a certain type of crappy shoegaze band.

December 17, 2009, 9:51am

jimmyjosh:

marco:

Oh yeah, about that Vimeo thing. Putting big-label music in a video is copyright infringement. It sucks, but that’s the way it is.

It’s hardly Capitol Records’ fault that a bunch of internet people think they should be exempt from the terms that their beloved bands agreed to when they signed with the label, and it’s childish to blame Capitol for trying to enforce them. The bands chose to work with Capitol under these terms. Why not direct this anger toward the bands? Why not demand that they work out a deal with their labels to contractually permit their music to be freely used in the ways that you feel should be free?

YouTube was forced to comply with the legality of musical usage. Vimeo can’t expect a free pass simply because its founders are creative.

Vimeo strictly requires videos to be original, non-infringing content. Why shouldn’t that extend to their soundtracks?

So what happens when Capital sues Tumblr because of the thousands of mp3s hosted on Tumblr-owned servers?

That’s the precarious thing about Tumblr, jimmyjosh - if any of these copyright holders wanted, they could effectively end Tumblr’s audio posting capabilities overnight. Thankfully, they either don’t see it as a threat (in part because they are embedded, in part because audio posts aren’t indexed by Google, Yahoo, or Bing, or in part that they realize that these posts probably aren’t hurting their bottom line but in many cases are free promotion for their artists) or have bigger fish to fry.

Trust me, I’m as guilty of this as any other person on Tumblr, so I’m hoping it stays just enough under the radar to avoid anyone who wants to make an issue of it.

Reblogged from jimmyjosh.

December 17, 2009, 12:44am

Sometimes I don't understand people

emmiline:

Tonight, the woman in line in front of me at the grocery store tried to buy a single stick of butter. When the cashier incredulously asked her if she took it out of the box, she said yes like it was a perfectly normal thing to do. When she was then told that they don’t sell butter that way, she acted all bent out of shape and said that she guessed she could buy the whole box. What?

I went shopping with my aunt once when I was a kid and she did this. Even then (I couldn’t have been more than ten), I remember thinking it was very weird - why not just buy the whole package? Butter keeps for a while - we’ll use it eventually?

I’m pretty sure they did it too - they charged her 1/4 the price of an entire package (even though the rest of it was unfit for sale now, I suppose). This makes me think that they used to do this regularly.

I’m with you though - people are weird.

Reblogged from My name is Emily and I like music.

December 16, 2009, 8:35pm

Free Music Archive: Portastatic - Phoning It In 10/26/06

People often offer the argument that “good songs” are ones that sound good in acoustic arrangements. I disagree.

However, having your song sound phenomenal when played over the phone? Cue up “I Wanna Know Girls” and tell me that doesn’t sound like magic.

December 16, 2009, 6:58pm

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13)