The Onion Strikes Back

But now you killed my vibe, Im feeling old for my age now.

(ba dum dum!)

Isn't it just internet-only radio that will have to start paying? ..

And could they avoid paying if they only played music that was given to them by the artist/publisher for free? (i.e. demos, live recordings that are not owned by the record companies?)

Does RIAA represent artists or record companies (or both) ?

See this link for details.

"Q10. Terrestrial radio stations don't pay sound recording copyright owners. Why should webcasters be treated any differently?
A. The lack of a broad sound recording performance right that applies to US terrestrial broadcasts is an historical accident."
(I hate when people use "an" before "historical".. "I walked up an hill to buy an hamburger.")

Let this be a lesson to us, we need to buy out all the senators before the RIAA does.

"$97.75 for one trunk line, plus $2.16 for each additional trunk line"

Useless tidbits like that make my day!

Bill would allow copying of digital media for personal use

The bill, called the Digital Choice and Freedom Act, along with a similar bill scheduled to be introduced today, will "help to retard the growth of efforts to roll over consumers' rights," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose.

Protects lawful consumers by permitting them to bypass technical measures that impede their rights and expectations.
DMCA? What DMCA? We don' need no steekeeng DMCA!

Protects lawful consumers by prohibiting non-negotiable shrink-wrap licenses that limit their rights and expectations.
Death to EULA's! RAHR!

You Go Zoe! You Go Zoe!

They represent the record companies, who in turn protect their artists profit streams.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitchfork_gives_music_6_8

Haha:

"In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement."

The last sentence is fantastically devious (and knowing).

teh rofflez

am i the only one who finds this to be kinda :/?

Ha, the sidebar links to something old, an editorial by Stephen King entitled "I Don't Even Remember Writing The Tommyknockers" -- which, incredibly enough, I think he actually wound up saying about Cujo! And then exposed The Tommyknockers as an obvious allegory about doing too much coke: these people, right, they find this thing that gives the endless energy and creativity, except they get all paranoid and evil and lose tons of weight and go dead inside and ...

Jordan, it's like basically the same running Pitchfork joke since 2000 -- fun to see it in the Onion, but if you've been paying attention to such things over the past decade it's kinda ... yeah

like when the sub pop interns son you on a joke three years before you, it may be time to reconsider where your humor website is headed.

sub pop's was much less funny

xpost - ha!
I'd give the Onion's joke a 7.6 compared to Sub Pop's 6.2!

6.0-6.9: Needs more white guitarists with black-rimmed glasses

this does not apply to sub pop.

Schreiber's semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references...

ya burnt!

Schreiber doesn't even write reviews anymore.

This isn't quite as good as MAD magazine's 'The Bunion' - zing after zing after ZING

the first line of this made me smile

Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given...

satire of a satire of a satire of a satire

It's weird to think that there was actually a time that The Onion was my homepage.

The complaints about the lack of humor or reality in the Onion piece in this thread adds a new level of LOL to the original Onion piece.

The Bunion = A+

Whatever, it's pretty funny.

(I didn't read all of it though)

Jackie Harvey 4-evah, though