i myself prefer the number 3

just reading the aquarius records post about the Conet Project reissue. usually the sheer bulk of aquarious mailings freaks me out - how much music can you think about in one day? i mean, i'm not in the other music mail order room, ferchristsakes - but this one struck me cause really, it's fucking crazy that people would be that interested in some spy-numbers exotica. from the list:

After several years in out of print limbo, the Irdial label has finally done a repress, in part we guess thanks to the $30,000+ settlement they recieved from Wilco's record label, who Irdial sued for the unauthorized use of a Conet Project sample on their breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album, whose title itself comes from that Conet sample. (Read more about that here http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63952,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7.) We're not sure if we understand or agree with the legalities behind Irdial's lawsuit, but we're happy at least that the outcome resulted in more Conets to go around (if that's where Irdial got the money to repress, as we suspect). There was also the use of a Conet track in that Tom Cruise movie Vanilla Sky...


maybe that 30k is what sent tweedy to the crackhouse...oh wait, he went to the crackhouse so he'd have an angle for npr. ouch! i AM trying to break your heart.