"Punk Fashion" (newly revised)

 

Punk Fashion... where do I begin? The very idea is almost an oxymoron... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has recently opened an exhibit called Punk: From Chaos to Couture. Unfortunately, as The New Yorker magazine aptly pointed out, this was a failure on multiple levels... (continued after the jump)

In Praise Of Amazon Cloud Player

It's very rare that a big company gets something right in regards to digital content... As one who's very outspoken about that, I thought I'd bite my tongue for a second. Amazon has just announced their 'Auto-Rip' service, where your CD purchases are automatically added to your Amazon Cloud Player for downloading or playing through the browser or mobile app. **UPDATE** as of April 3 this now includes vinyl purchases! What's more, is that past purchases from the last 15 years are added in as well! It's refreshing that they did not feel the need to cripple the service with some sort of restrictive DRM, which would essentially render the entire thing useless.

I received this email from Amazon:

You may have noticed that songs from 45 CDs you have purchased from Amazon were added to your Cloud Player library. This means that high-quality MP3 versions of these songs are available for you to play or download from Cloud Player for FREE. You can find your songs in the "Purchased" playlist...

In addition, we're excited to announce AutoRip. Now when you buy any CD with the logo, all songs from the MP3 version of that album will instantly be delivered to your Amazon Cloud Player library for FREE. 

Check it out:

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