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Why You Want a Muxtape

I don’t usually bother posting links here. I’d prefer to use this space for my own writing than spam you with posts raving about the latest YouTube video doing the rounds of email inboxes. (My Facebook Posted Items feed is there for that.) Still, there’s something about the site Muxtape that requires a little more [...]

Please, Take My Money

As regular readers would be aware, I’m a fan of giving Apple money. I like my iPod Nano I bought on my birthday last year and I’m pretty sure my next laptop will be a MacBook of some description. I also took the opportunity to avail myself of some of the DRM-free tracks that went [...]

First Impressions of iTunes Plus (or Error 3259)

As I’ve made clear in a few posts to the blog, I believe in DRM-free music. I believe in it so much I’m willing to support the Russian mob and spend $20 on a Damon Albarn side-project I don’t even really want. Yesterday, though, promised to be the end of those dalliances for good when [...]

It Shouldn’t Be This Hard

I’ve been in Japan for a while now and one thing I’m really missing is music. Which isn’t to say that there’s no music in Japan of course. There’s plenty of music, even Western music. Although albums here tend to be more expensive than they would be back home, if you’re willing to go looking [...]

Music Without Borders

Some are calling it the end of DRM. That’s probably going a bit far. DRM seems too lucrative in the burgeoning markets of ringtones and videos to disappear anytime soon. Still, as far as music albums go, the announcement by EMI that it would be making its entire digital catalgoue available DRM-free was incredible news. [...]