iTunes [Music] Store 100% DRM free, variable pricing begun
Akin to a one-cheek sneak, the iTunes Store has begun without formally announcing variable pricing for music—69¢ back catalog, 99¢ current and $1.29 popular. The other shoe falling is that all tracks are now digital rights management (DRM)-free.
And, since this week’s offering of free music, TV, etc on iTunes is so darned slim, at least up until now, here are the two things plus a repeat from last week that are currently available—one song and one video.
Single of the Week
Band of Skulls—Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals), Emma Richardson (bass, vocals) and Matt Hayward (drums)—play a ragged, rough and absolutely riveting take on rock ‘n’ roll. Somewhere between howling, minimal blues-rock and sneering indie pop is where you’ll find this UK trio’s debut single, I Know What I Am. We’re confident you’ll fall for the band’s intertwining male / female vocals and jumpy, primal rhythms in the same way we have.
Video of the Week
Artist: Friendly Fires
Track: Skeleton Boy
Book excerpt—Why we suck
“A pissed off Leary is the best Leary,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why we suck, Dr Denis Leary uses his common sense and his biting and hilarious take on the world to attack the politically correct, hypocritical, obese, thin—basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously. He does so with the extra oomph of a doctorate bestowed upon him by his alma mater Emerson College. “Sure it’s just a celebrity type of thing—they only gave it to me because I’m famous,” Leary explains. “But it’s legal and it means I get to say I’m a doctor—just like Dr Phil.”
Get Why we Suck (excerpt)
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