Links for 9.22.08: Obama’s soundtrack, hot buttered band names, slot music…
by Josh Kimball
*Band names: From Metal Sucks comes the best band name the listenerd has run across since The Sweatpant Boners of the early 2000s. Yes, it’s Hot Buttered Anal.
*Ideas: HAAAAAAAAAAA. Mixtube lets people make playlists out of audio scraped from YouTube (making it much closer to legal than previous Mixtape apps like Muxtape). I blogged about a similar idea a while ago. Also: I am an idiot. [readwriteweb]
*Slots: SlotMusic – this nearly universally maligned plan is to sell albums not as CDs or MP3s, but on SD memory cards. The idea may well not be a good one at all, however, the attitude and authority with which so many people claim to know the music business and what’s good for it is appalling and depressing. Whoa. Where did that come form?
*Politics: Obama releases a campaign soundtrack, Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement. Songs by Kanye, Adam Levine, Jackson Browne and Los Lonely Boys. [largehearted boy]
*MySpace: TechCrunch has screenshots from the much-awaited MySpace Music. The MySpace is still too ugly for me! I’m over 30!!111 OMG. And bald. Ugh.
*Mobile: Will Google’s Android phone be equipped with a client for Amazon’s MP3 store?
*Fashion: The Guardian gives props to Andre 3000 for giving props to British style. According to the article, Benjamin also went to a high school where a preppy street gang called the Stray Cats wore Benetton and beat on people with tennis raquets. What the fricking fuck? [licensing plate]
*Interviews: P-fork talks to David Byrne. Seems like someone talk to David Byrne every couple weeks, doesn’t it? Anyway: “Things that might have alienated me in the past, now I just figure, well, that’s the way that person is or that’s just the way things are. I’m not going to let that bother me too much. And maybe it’s because being older there’s a certain kind of don’t-give-a-shit attitude.” I think I would like to, if this description is any indication, be old, but without the baldness.
*Video: Dave Eggers talks to Chris Elliott. (It’s 32 minutes, and there’s some earnestness, but still.)
*Meta: WTF? WordPress is fucking with my shit? Maybe it’s time to find a new thing. If I can muster the energy.
I too find that context-free YouTube links make for some of the most powerful commentary possible.
[...] the listenerd on the Slot Music plan: [...]
“the attitude and authority with which so many people claim to know the music business and what’s good for it is appalling and depressing. Whoa. Where did that come from?”
the internet?
ha ha kidding (sort of) (ok not really).
fwiw, i think slotmusic is a really dumb idea unless it gets pricepointed correctly (i.e. under $10). most people who still buy music don’t want to move away from cds. stop by your local best buy and i bet you’ll see a lot of those album cards that sony bmg tried to push on consumers (“they’re like gift cards, but for records instead of items you may need or want!”) back in january.
and i’m not fully convinced by the notion of people wanting to listen to music on cell phones, either.
I tried to put Slacker on my Blackberry yesterday. (I guess it’s not available yet? Or maybe user error. I’m willing to at least give it a try?
Also, I like the internet!
Also, I agree that those retail music cards (not the SD ones) are a pain, but they also require an extra downloading step. I don’t really think the SDs will work either, but at least you can just insert and go. (Or whatever.)