Tag Archives: RIAA

Top 5: Ways the Music Industry Can Save Itself

If you really think about, the whole sit­u­a­tion with the music indus­try is quite tragic. Not because record labels lose money (I could care less about records labels and the music exec­u­tives who don’t know how to run them) or because artists lose money (I’m some­times really indif­fer­ent to them), but really because music isn’t truly expe­ri­enced any more.

27 March 2008 – 6:03 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Top 5 | Tagged , | Comments (0)

New Year’s Eve + Last Minute 2007 Bits

It’s been really cold lately in Sacra­mento this win­ter sea­son. You can talk about global warm­ing all you want, but the more log­i­cal rea­son is the lack of rain. There’s prob­a­bly a sci­en­tific rea­son behind it (I haven’t had enough cof­fee to fig­ure it out), but has any­one noticed that when it rains the air feels warmer?

31 December 2007 – 12:26 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Everyday | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, And Madonna: Three More Reasons That Downloading Music Isn’t Going Away

The Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica (RIAA) would like you to believe that their recent legal vic­tory over Jam­mie Thomas in the first RIAA copy­right infringe­ment law­suit to ever go to trial will con­vince every ille­gal file sharer now to think twice. But the truth is that file shar­ing (legal or ille­gal) will for­ever be a sta­ple in the dig­i­tal age.

21 October 2007 – 10:27 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Stuff | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Barry Bonds + Jeff Kent, Marion Jones, RIAA

Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent were team­mates for a very long time. You’d never know it, but those two hated each other. Yet the irony was the two were more sim­i­lar than they were dif­fer­ent. If you ever read sto­ries about the two nowa­days, you’ll hear how Kent was just as a loner as Bonds was. Even though Kent was enthu­si­as­tic dur­ing inter­views, it’s just that he’d only be enthu­si­as­tic dur­ing inter­views. He wanted to make him­self look like the anti-Bonds.

4 October 2007 – 7:51 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Quotes, Sports | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)