so desperate to listen to music at work i plugged in to insound's online stream of crap - actually liked the cave-in track, which isn't surprising to me as i've liked some of their stuff bfr. also, the neil halstead track is quite lovely though i didn't really like mohave 3 (blasphemy!) and was distrusting this output - there is a wierd, scquelching moment of complete randomness at the end of the track - very unprofessional and wrong sounding - i wonder what would possess him to leave it in.
not much else on my mind. was thinking of signing up to pressplay.com for the two week trial just to fuck around with it and see if it even works - i can't believe they want $30 dollars a month to be able to burn 20 tracks, download something stupid like 300 - who even has that much space on their computer? it's so stupid, and of course artists are complaining that after all their initial fuss about napster not paying them that now all these label-led content-on-demand sites are FUCKING THEM OVER EVEN MORE! and new artists are not even able to negotiate the rights to any of that money, whatever pathetic amount it is. the whole thing just reeks of old people misunderstanding/fearing technology, people hungry for money without understanding, people so afraid of an open market that they'll try to destroy any open content format that would give The Shins equal treatment with Britney. good article about it by neil strauss in the nytimes 2/18/02.
also, on a semi-music/corporate evilness related note - bust is back up! just bought a sub and hope to pitch them some stories.