for a while now artists have been complaining about music being sold by songs on their own instead of in full albums online with most criticism pointed at iTunes. granted i am an open apple fanboy but this must not be construed as such. this is the artists/labels/etc taking out their frustrations with consumers and the change in the marketplace in the wrong way. napster was the first to show that if people are interested only in the hot jam single they are going to go out and procure that as such. the same went for 7″ singles back in the day, tho they did give you the option of flipping it over and hearing another cut to try and get you to go buy the LP. the music industry is in a werid spot. they have begun pressing vinyl again to give consumers a more substantial connection to the music, yet they are testing out making music available on SD cards? thats just stupid and a waste of time, and resources. at this point the industry really needs to examine how consumers want to consume music and begin to figure out ways to satisfy demand or other services will come along and further the consumer from the industry and artists.

microsoft just doesnt get it. the get a mac ads are not a poke at microsoft themselves rather the industry that has grown up around them. john gruber of daringfireball summed it up best on twitter:”@gruber: “PC” isn’t a brand name or specific competitor. Hodgman’s character is an anthropomorphized generic computer, not an OS.”

Celebrating the Freedom to Read - September 27–October 4, 2008

joy division has been popping up all over mainstream culture recently control a biopic of singer ian curtis, a documentary, a limited edition microsoft zune, and now a shirt collab using the unknown pleasures artwork between peter saville (the artist) and DC.

not too stoked on the shirt as it alters the original artwork in a way that lessons the impact. i want the zune, someone hook it up?

i wish i had the documentary here so i could relay something that was said about joy divisions impact on society then and now. i couldnt agree more. also from the docu, joy division took the fuck you of punk and changed it to a im fucked sense of feeling about life and reality. which is how a lot of people feel about the current world order, including me.

via the guardian

im calling it. more to come later on the subject.

at the electric factory. Tuesday, October 7, 2008. stoked.