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Useless Technology
Raise your hand if you actually still have a land-line in your home – and use it. I have a feeling not many hands will be up in the air. Many people simply don’t see the need to pay for this type of service when they already shell out money for their cellular device every [...]
Are Compact Discs Dead?
In just a few months, Universal Music Group is dropping the prices on their CDs to between six and ten dollars each in an effort to boost sales. While the company does have its hand in the music download and streaming side of things, their profit margins are much better with physical disc sales. Up [...]
What 100 Things Will Your Child Probably Never Know?
I came across an interesting article online today. With this week being the 40th anniversary of man landing on the Moon, many adults are nostalgic. Nathan Barry blogged on Wired, talking about the many things that kids today have probably never gotten to see and do – and likely never will. But Moore’s Law and [...]
Spend $25 and get $5 coupon at Amazon MP3
Amazon MP3, Amazon’s music download store, just announced a cross-promotion with their CD and Electronics stores where purchases of $25 or more of qualifying CDs or Electronic items from Amazon gets customers a $5 credit at Amazon MP3. This promotion will run now through Christmas Day. You can purchase a minimum of $25 worth of [...]
What was Your First CD?
For those of us who used to own vinyl, buying our first CD was a huge deal. I’d be willing to wager that we also remember what our first CD was, and even when we bought it. The first one I ever bought was The Traveling Willburys. For Kat, it was Ride the Lightning, by [...]
How to Listen to Music Without Breaking the Law
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Honeytoast is a regular member of our live community. He wanted to send me his top 5 ways of getting and listening to music legally, conveniently, and inexpensively. Subscribe to Rhapsody or another streaming type music source. This is Chris’ favorite, [...]
CD Destroyer
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Trying to eat a CD isn’t quite the most effective way to destroy it. Scissors won’t actually work, either. You could spend a lot of money on a shredder, but why would you? You can just buy a CD Destroyer. Elecom [...]
Don’t Download This Album
I’m not a professional music critic – and don’t pretend to be. However, I’ve gotta tell you that “Straight Outta Lynwood” [SOL] is one of the best albums that “Weird Al” Yankovic has produced to date. Yes, I’m biased – having been a fan of the band ever since the seventh grade. His originals finally, [...]
Ethan Kaplan
Confirmed Gnomedex Discussion Leader: Ethan Kaplan. No relation to Pud, Ethan is the Director of Technology for Warner Bros Records. That would mean he’s largely responsible for a lot of the geeky stuff that happens over there. I can’t imagine any Gnomedexer not owning at least one Warner Bros music product – go look at [...]
