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Why the fuck do you still report on Courtney Love?
on Courtney Talks About Trent Reznor, Blog Hiatus at July 25, 2008 1:30 PMScore = 2
Rapping and singing are two entirely different artforms. Using the example of a rapper intentionally butchering a song written for someone else's voice as an example of a lack of musical talent in rap is ridiculous and very flawed logic.
Well played, Jay-Z. Well played.
on Jay-Z Covers "Wonderwall" At Glastonbury at June 29, 2008 8:11 PMScore = 4
I vote "Squid Brains" for insult of the year.
on Kanye: Don't Blame Me, Blame Bonnaroo at June 26, 2008 1:04 AMScore = 1
I really like Unstoppable, but I feel like Night Ripper is much more accessible, if not danceable. I think that from certain angles Unstoppable is a better album, but for wide appeal, you can't really beat Night Ripper - and now Feed the Animals.
Also, to add on to my earlier comment, the money that people will donate won't be that much. Anyone with a realistic world view knows that the majority of downloaders won't pony up any cash, and its not like Girl Talk is going to garner anything of Radiohead proportions. The money will likely allow Illegal Art to break even from the massive bandwidth spent to DD a 120mb file (for the free one, lets not even mention the size of a $5+ donation, which would require a DD of hundreds of MB due to the size of FLAC files). Personally, I did not donate any more, but only because I plan to purchase the vinyl when it is released in a few months, but to say that Gillis and Illegal Art don't deserve to gain back some of the funds spent on this album is insane.
on Girl Talk's Feed The Animals Is Out Today at June 20, 2008 12:36 PMScore = 0
"Not exactly. It's one thing to repurpose other peoples' art into something of your own, it's another thing to attempt to profit from it. Gillis is making money off of this, yet nobody who wrote, played, recorded or released the original songs are seeing a cent, and to me, that's wrong."
He's not trying to profit off the albums, per se, and it's unlikely he will. If you've read interviews, he's said that one of the major reasons Night Ripper was released on CD was to help Illegal Art break even. How many artists like this profit? And why shouldn't he profit? Just because he's not distorting the samples beyond recognition or getting clearance for them does not mean he hasn't done a tremendous amount of work in creating this album. He quit his job to work on Girl Talk full time, Feed the Animals took 2 years to make. Its very naive and uninformed of you to imply that the work and creativity required to make an album such as this was any less than astounding, and to say that it isn't on par or above the more traditional artists who profit without qualms from the community at large, when they so obviously directly steal from their influences.
on Girl Talk's Feed The Animals Is Out Today at June 19, 2008 9:22 PMScore = 2
Get Trent Reznor's balls out of your mouth.
In reply to sumone's comment on The Radiohead Model at May 20, 2008 7:30 PMScore = 2
Yes. There were a lot of bands that did this before Radiohead. And they didn't require you to give a credit card, either.
Example: Harvey Danger. They allowed DD and Torrents for free like two or three years ago.
In reply to J.Cox's comment on The Radiohead Model at May 20, 2008 5:48 PMScore = 0
They love record stores but hate their fans!
on Metallica Loves Record Stores at April 23, 2008 5:30 PMScore = -1
I didn't like this ad. Or Adam Cagely.
on Meat Loaf And Tiffany Duet (For An Uncomfortably Long Time) For AT&T's GoPhone at April 16, 2008 9:32 PMScore = 2
As usual, mention Baltimore bands, ignore Baltimore scene.
on NME's 25 Bands Making America Cool Again at August 1, 2008 5:56 PMScore = -1