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the tiniest mexican
06/26/09

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To be fair, Matt Drudge has never turned down an attempt to run a ginormous picture of Nancy Pelosi. Never. It's his equivalent of HuffPo putting up a picture of Rush Limbaugh - it gets the core audience fuming with indignation before they can read a word.
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DahlELama
06/26/09

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I only have two questions left about the whole thing before I complete ignore any- and everything written about his death from here on out:

1) Seriously, what's happening to the Beatles catalog?

2) Why on Earth do people rush out and buy someone's music or books or whatever when they die? That stuff's not going anywhere. It's not like you must rush to get it because now that they're no longer living, the MP3s are gonna disappear. It's going to sound today exactly like it did 2 days ago, and if you didn't want it then, why do you want it now?
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/26/09

@DahlELama: I'd like to think that in at least some cases people who watch coverage of the person's death are reminded how much they liked them, or how they always meant to read that book/listen to that album and buy accordingly.
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JeromeCabaret
06/26/09

Well, for what it's worth, I'm a teenager and had never really listened to any of MJ's stuff. I mean, I heard Billie Jean on the radio and watched the Thriller video once after my mom talked about it, but I had no idea how great of a performer he was, or how prolific. After he died yesterday I went onto Youtube and watched some of his videos and realized some of his songs are really cool. So I went and downloaded them. I've been playing Dirty Diana basically nonstop since last night. I've also realized that my generation sucks in terms of music. Very sad.
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DahlELama
06/26/09

@JeromeCabaret: That's the best explanation I've heard so far. Yes, your generation totally sucks in terms of music, but the beauty of really good music from the past is that it lasts for long enough to make up for Taylor Swift.
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Crackers in Bed
06/27/09

@DahlELama: you can definitely listen to clips of songs before you buy them on iTunes - I do this all the time.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
06/28/09

@DahlELama: Hey! My generation does not suck in terms of music! For every Taylor Swift, there is a Conor Oberst, Britt Daniel, Cut Off Your Hands, Cool Kids, and other such artists to counteract. This is the laziest criticism.
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DahlELama
06/28/09

@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: You just named four artists (and referred to many more) who get approximately no radio play. Yes, every generation has some great artists, thank God, but none of these people are "counteracting" Taylor Swift until my doctor's office replaces it's hourly blasting of "Romeo and Juliet" with one of their hits.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
07/02/09

@DahlELama: Eek, just noticed this! Where I live, those artists plus a whole heap more local ones get plenty of radio play (in part due to a government-initiated pledge to play at least 30% homegrown artists). Yeah there's some rubbish around, sure, but no more than there was five, ten, twenty, or thirty years ago- I mean, I'm pretty sure that The Osmonds weren't considered the cream of the crop, and their career trajectory was pretty much over long before I was born! I think that my generation slash the one after mine is coming into this era where a lot more indie bands are emerging, where, due to the advent of the internet, bands can get coverage and radio play without necessarily having to be signed to a major record label first. Y'know?
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Airvault
06/26/09

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You mean today isn't still yesterday? When did that happen?
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Richard Lawson
06/26/09

@airvault: This is good.
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El Matardillo
06/26/09

@airvault: At 12 noon tomorrow.
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anibundel
06/26/09

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Wash.Post still has screaming banners about Jackson's death as well.

It goes with their MO of reporting yesterday's news today, rather than today's news today.
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