When I got my master's in library science, I took an intro to preservation course. I believe there are places you can send your media to that specialize in getting stuff off of odd formats (caveat emptor, of course). I also seem to recall situations where one institution loans materials to another specifically for the…

Things I've learned from reading the comments to this article:

Why should anybody give a shit what anyone thinks about rock 'n' roll and whether or not it's "dead"? Nothing could be more insipid than this old saw, which was already a tired cliché when Lenny Kravitz wrote a song making fun of the idea 20 years ago.

Isn't it obvious that the reason this song was "chosen" is because it's the number one song on the charts right now? Bringing up other songs that you find more offensive is a non-sequitur because the discussion is about, "Hey, the number one song in the country right now seems kinda rape-y to some people." In the…

This show is something else. What really gets to me is stuff like having Will make some "hilarious" remark on-air and then one of the guys in the control room snickers at Will's little joke. So basically it's Aaron Sorkin congratulating himself on being funny. This stuff happens multiple times per episode. It's so…

Rollins quit said day job to join said band. Actually, Black Flag is a pretty extreme example of artistic integrity, at least as far as being willing to work unbelievably hard and starve a lot.

Let me guess, Ayn Rand is up there in your personal pantheon of special rare artists.

Bandcamp is pretty good. You can stream for free on a band's website and the band can set whatever price point it wants for downloads/physical copies (including name your own price). I use it to buy new music whenever I can because I know I'm sending money directly to the artist in most cases.

This is probably true. For someone that's a bit anal and nerdy about their music collection (like me), however, Spotify can't replace music purchases because there's no guarantee that whatever is on there today will still be there tomorrow. I use it strictly as a tool for listening to new music (along with YouTube,…

I think the advent of the internet basically threw a monkey wrench into the gears of the capitalist enterprise of selling any reproducible art/entertainment/informative content. Capitalism depends on the ability of one class to exploit the labor of another class (via owning the means of production) and the internet,…