“We have made IE 8 the best browser for the way people really do use the web,” said Microsoft’s Amy Barzdukas. “We have long advocated providing choice to customers and respect peoples’ ability to choose.”
Of course, as long as they choose Microsoft.
Have i ever told you how much i love some BBC headlines? For example: Sex smell lures ‘vampire’ to doom.
Hello, World.
World, you owe me. Not too much—about fifty bucks. But you still owe me.
You see, World, i’ve been listening to Radiohead since the second “You’re so fucking special” was played on Israeli Educational TV for the first time. When “Pablo Honey”, “The Bends” and “OK Computer” were released, i was a penniless teenager. Few of my friends listened to such music and those who did like it, were penniless teenagers, too, and didn’t have the CD’s. And, believe it or not, there were no MP3’s to download then. I only knew the songs from the videos on MTV, but did’t hear “Black Star”, “Planet Telex”, “You” or “Exit Music”.
Long story short, by 2000 i finally bought all those CD’s. I even became so rich, that i bought “Kid A” the day it was released.
What’s the problem then? The rest. With every album that they released, Radiohead released a separate companion EP. And these companion EP’s were good, too. And they were almost as expensive as the albums. For some time i didn’t buy them, because i hardly had the money to buy the albums. Later i was sure that EMI ere about to re-release them in some way. Then i stopped seeing them in record stores. Hey, i stopped seeing record stores—they began to get closed one after the other.
And then i saw those EP’s somewhere, and i had some spare money and i gave up and bought them—”My Iron Lung EP”, “How am I Driving EP”, “Com Lag EP”. Excellent music—”The Trickster”, “Permanent Daylight”, “Pearly”, “Palo Alto”.
Mere weeks later, bang: Radiohead’s First Three Albums Reissued and Expanded.
Well, yes, those tracklists have the complete EP’s and then some: “Molasses”, “Talk Show Host”, “Pop is Dead” and “Killer Cars” are all great and hard-to-find songs. And i am going to buy that crap, because i am the sucker that keeps the CD industry alive. But damn it, i don’t know what is it in me that makes record companies re-release albums days after i, of all people, buy myself a copy. It happened to me with Bob Dylan, Pavement, R. E. M. and Arik Einstein, but somehow with Radiohead it’s especially painful.
So there. I guess that i had to buy those EP’s to have them re-released so you, World, would be able to pay less than i paid and get more than i got.
Fuck justice. Fuck EMI. Fuck Radiohead. Fuck money.
P.S. At least i didn’t buy “Seven Television Commercials”. Go-go, YouTube.
“The era of Bushisms is now coming to an end, and word watchers worldwide will have a hard time substituting Barack Obama’s precise intonations and eloquence for W’s unique linguistic constructions.” (Paul JJ Payack, GLM.)
“In the 16th century nobody cared who composed. I like it. It was just the orchestra, completely faceless and nameless. What i do now, with iPod and iTunes and stuff like that, i just rename everything with really surrealist poetic names.” (Daevid Allen)
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