Archive for October, 2007
Radiohead, In Rainbows.
I downloaded the just-released CD of Radiohead's newest album, In Rainbows. They offered it online as a preorder for both the download version and the box set. The interesting part? Radiohead let their interested fans choose how much they wanted to pay for the album. Since Radiohead is not currently signed to a label or a contract, the move is intended to drive traffic to their site and to obviously generate a buzz in doing so.
While many people will clearly freeload and take the album for free (which isn't so bad for them anyway), many will pay something to the artists for their work. In fact, I theorize that many indie rock fans and hipsters will argue over who paid more for the album.
You can check it out here. Pay something or don't pay at all, but definitely check it out. It's mellow, though I'm not sure what to compare it to.
New iPod.
I had a $200 gift certificate to OneCall.com from PokerStars sitting around, and I eventually decided to spend it on a new blue iPod Nano that plays video. Looks pretty decent and shaped in a more aesthetically pleasing way as well as probably being more comfortable in an armband when I'm working out or running. We'll see if the video gets any usage in the gym; I can't imagine I'd use it anywhere else.
Indians!
Ah Joe Borowski, you are awesome. And by awesome, I mean please suffer a debilitating injury in a major car accident before we play the ALCS.
Booya!
Pathetic.
FLY IT, BABY!
The Cubs are pathetic. $200 million+ in added payroll couldn't buy you a single game in the playoffs.
Now, time to hedge my 50:1 Diamondbacks win the NLCS bet.
Tribe WINS!
Going to NYY up 2-0 yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
Let's go D-Backs let's go *clap clap*
Let's go Diamondbacks! I may or may not have a substantial bet on them at 50:1, a bet I made preseason at the Venetian in Las Vegas.
One down, two to go. Brandon Webb is the man.