Word: label
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyone that the record companies will look to today's digital music anarchy with nostalgia. Not only would users have to subscribe (at a similar cost) to five major download sites, but to download a track, say, a new Moby single, they'd have to first figure out which label Moby is on, then register as a paying user at that label's download site. Hardly a good solution to the Napster problem...
...since I'm feeling the placekicking love and want to atone for my prior label of Anders "Oh no, he" Blewitt, I'll take back what I wrote and try to put a more positive spin on it. How about Anders "I'm sure he's a great guy, so it's ok that he occasionally" Blewitt...
...huge agreement announced on Halloween by Napster and the German giant of the media world, Bertelsmann Music Group. In a nutshell, Napster has agreed to clean up its act and charge users a subscription to download songs by Bertelsmann artists, in return for sharing profits with the German label and its artists. Forget the presidential election, forget the sequencing of the human genome, forget that space station thing. This announcement is the piece of news from the year 2000 that will affect your life most, at least in the next couple of years...
Rather than label Johannes Fibiger, Antonio Moniz and Julius Wagner von Juaregg as unworthy recipients of the Nobel Prize, you should have seen their work for what it was: medical advances for the age they lived in. After all, most of the acclaimed scientific advances today could prove to be gross errors a century from now, when our knowledge may have leaped geometrically beyond today's boundaries. BIODUN OLUSESI Lagos...
...Scratch a collector, and you find a pack rat who likes to play librarian. As a teenager Elton bought rock records extravagantly, then organized them with Prussian efficiency, filing them by record label and catalog number. With early stardom he loaded up on the usual blunder acquisitions of new-money collectors. (What was it exactly that baby boomers saw in Art Nouveau posters and Tiffany lamps?) Most of that he sold off some years ago in the mental and physical housecleaning that accompanied his decision to stop drinking. Then he went to lunch in France, somebody showed him some prints...