Free Music For You Cheap Bastards

Hey, Josh Love found the blog. Cool.

I've been a little busy over the last few days with some editing stuff, but I thought I'd mention that Trent Reznor has decided to give away the new Nine Inch Nails album for free here.  Last year's album," Year Zero", was the first NIN album I picked up since I was in high school, and it was pretty good.  If Radiohead set the course for the future of distribution with "In Rainbows", then I'm cool with that.

In other music news, Atmosphere's new album "When Live Gives You Lemons, Paint That Shit Gold" debuted in the Billboard charts at number 5.  I still haven't really wrapped my head around that.  I've listened to the album about one and a half times (I also recently picked up the new albums from The Roots and Gnarls Barkley, so I've had a fair amount of new stuff to listen to) and while I don't like it nearly as much as the last Atmosphere album ("You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having", which is one of my favorite hip hop albums this decade), it is pretty good.  Tom Waits appears on the album beat-boxing.  Make of that whatever you will. The album cracking the top 5 says a lot about how committed the Atmosphere fan base is, and a lot about how fragmented the music industry is at this point, given Slug and Ant's relative anonymity and lack of main stream exposure (well, one And1 commercial used an Atmosphere song, but that was a couple of years ago).  

Right now, I'm planning on writing more tomorrow, but that could change if the lines to vote in the primary are too long (most years that would be an absurd statement.  This year, I think there's an outside chance that the primary will be slightly crowded) or if something comes up, or if I get caught up playing "Ico" on the PS2.  

Oh, the picture.  I've been re-watching Arrested Development.  Again.  I might write Gob's name in on the ballot tomorrow every time I haven't heard of either candidate.