Well. It's awful, it's unnatural, and makes shopping at record stores sound like a something a boring a-hole would do. Yup, it perfectly sums up what record store day has become.

I don't see why. Mad Max takes place in the same future, it just happens at an earlier point and closer to the remnants of society. Furiosa also had origins that from a place that held onto the remnants of the previous society.

The signature car was destroyed in Road Warrior as well. He ended up driving a train in Beyond Thunderdome.

This is approximately where my head's at. The fact that Max is played by Mel Gibson has always been more of a footnote. There was nothing particularly special about Mel's performance beyond his accent.

People still look at art expecting to be awed and impressed by craftsmanship and visual aesthetics. For them Rothko is a guy who didn't work hard enough, and Warhol is a guy who painted normal things.

Also 38, and enjoying the noisy guitars and stream-of-conscious style of lyricism. The first time I heard her was a live set on WFMU. I see why people call her indie but I think she has a much more 70s, early 80s Americana, and Australia/New Zealand pop vibe. Maybe I've just been listening to too much of The Clean.

Late nite appearances are only relevant when people make them out to be. Lots of bands do late nite shows with little fanfare. SNL may be the only exception since the is a companion to the celebrity guest host.

Well, they're both female brunettes. I hear a lot more of The Clean, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, Daniel Johnston, and Kurt Vile in her sound.

Just think about how Jonah Hill is the new Joe Pesci in Scorsese movies.

A good description would be soulful blues-rock for the radio and Starbucks. They have the organ, weird vocals, and enough people playing guitar to earn the "authentic" tag from a Pitchfork reviewer; and clean, crisp, and beige enough to be shirked off as bland by people who hang out in record stores.

Also, 95% of the time the sync up between "Darkside.." and whatever you're watching is really horrible in terms of film music.

Admittedly, the digital downloads are still a disappointing mixed bag. It's a good thing Foobar has a good scripting engine.

That works surprisingly well, but I have to say the guitarist doesn't really get that he needs to back off a bit. Definitely agree they need someone more R&B or soul based.

They don't need a guy that can sing "Interstate Love Song" they need a guy who could have written "Internet Love Song." You can't replace a key member with an employee, especially he was the only face of the band.

He said he'd had a lot of problems with Blue Note releases where the CD sits wrong and warps the record in some way. These would all be normal 1 sleeve releases. In any case I've never had problems of my own, but I do have several of those CDs just hanging around collecting dust.

Well, I've run into quite a few people who liked the quality. I first encountered the cassette thing with noise, and indie bands that were into retro, and cassette decks were accessible retro for them. For them the cassette was a much more tangible way to sell music at the merch table, than a CD-R. There were also a…

Burned CDs are just shitty and disappointing.

Friend: why don't you buy CDs any more.
Me: I ran out of shelf space.
Friend: they why do you still buy records.
Me: Different shelf.
Friend: that doesn't make any sense.
Me: I don't see why it wouldn't.

LP and download code is much better. Typically, when I buy an LP that comes with a CD the guy at the record store asks me to play the record right away and bring it back if there are any problems. Basically, records are heavy and all that weight with CDs in the middle can reek havoc.

The trouble with 5.1 audio is that we only have 2 ears and music is normally experienced as a projection, and not a perspective. It just doesn't add anything to the experience, at least not the way it would with a movie.