Archive for August, 2007

HMV cuts prices, CRIA doesn’t get it

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

CBC news is reporting that HMV, the largest chain music retailer in Canada, will cut prices from 20 to 33 percent on music across the board, with back catalogues from popular artists potentially shedding $10 dollars a disc. Of course CRIA is blaming piracy for this apparently tragic bout of consumer friendly adjustment, but as […]

Like an irritated wasp

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Buzz band. How about we all put this term to bed? There’s nothing that invalidates the contents of a press release more effectively than the use of this label. The bullshit detector just hits 11 at first sight.
For the sake of argument let’s say that the term’s actually appropriate — The act in question is […]

It has a name now

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Hey. Long summer no posts. I blame… well I really don’t need to explain myself to you, you’re a blog and I own you. Stay in line.
Anyways, all that PR spam I was complaining about in the prior post now has a name, thanks to some apparently very recent web 2.0 jargon creation:
bacn: Email […]