The Last Eunuch
A step up from Milsy
There is a quote from Chopper Read that goes like this:
"When the willies started to hit the floor, that's when I gave up being president of the Van Gough Club."
Chopper was referring to a time when a prisoner named Gary (David) Webb sliced off his own knob in jail to get some attention from the nurses. Chopper had previously and infamously sliced off his ears to get out of H Division.
Now, I am not quite sure of the date when Alternative Music ceased from being alternative and independent but when Damien Leith, Australian Idol winner and hunter of lepricorns has the best selling Alternative EP on iTunes called 22 Steps (Sony BMG), I think it's time for a few willies to hit the floor -- because by the sound of his voice his balls already have.
Incidentally, the top selling Alternative singles on iTunes are:
1. I Don't Want to be in Love (Good Charlotte)
2. Straight Line (Silverchair)
3. Little Wonders (Rob (John) Thomas)
4. 22 Steps (Damien Leith)
5. Keep Your Hands Off My Girl (Good Charlotte)
6. Get Fucked Everyone (Me)
DRM sucks. The real problem is not the music, it's business.
If you still use itunes for your music, read this:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/05/social-music-overview/
Here is a great example of why alternative is not alternative anymore.
http://www.pandora.com/restricted
Anyways, here are some links to help us all out:
http://www.last.fm/
http://www.projectopus.com/
http://mog.com/
http://www.radioblogclub.com/
http://radiotime.com/Index.aspx
http://www.songbirdnest.com/
http://www.jambase.com/
http://www.ijamr.com/landing.asp
http://www.purevolume.com/
http://ccmixter.org/
http://www.mediamax.com/
http://www.finetune.com/
http://www.ijigg.com/
I'm a pirate from way back. Arrr! Commodore 64. Old school. So yeah, I went through Napster, AudioGalaxy, BearShare, LimeWire, BitTorrent.
Got older, felt guilty. Found eMusic (www.emusic.com). Fully legit, guvnor. No DRM. Recommendations you actually want to download. Very reasonable - about a third of what iTurds charges.
And the very, very best thing... no Madonna. No Pink. No Pussytwat Dolls. Hardly any Top 40. Just awesome music. Today's top albums: M. Ward, Spoon, Tomahawk, Elliot Smith. Chuck, like the man in the hat says, Do yourself a favour.
Thanks for the links guys. The iTunes store and DRM can lick my balls.
The Rug pee'ers are not the problem here dude.
In my day ... which was a long time ago Alternative meant Faith No More (I still love this fucking band), Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, The Beasties, Ben Harper, Nick Cave etc. They all became mainstream eventually.
PS. Did Marmalade mention Tomahawk? a fav of mine.
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