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After snagging Radiohead’s monumental “OK Computer” for $1.99*, I decided I’d pay a little more attention to our friends at Amazon who apparently know how to make a sale and have decent taste in music.

I scoured their site to see if they had an RSS feed for this page but I was unsuccessful in said search. That’s sad, but apparently the geeks over at Yahoo! Pipes put together an RSS feed for us all to enjoy.**

* These MP3s are 256kbps and NO DRM. I love Apple and iTunes, but this is way better.

** I’ve been using Pipes a lot lately to assist in some web app writing, I love it.

I wanted to make it easier for you to get the content you want on my site quicker. In light of that, I’ve made some individual feeds that you might find of interest.   These RSS feeds only contain content for that specific topic. And of course if you want to get everything, you can still subscribe to the main RSS feed. Here are the categories:

• Design
• Photography
• Heh
• Movies & Music

I’ve found a few YouTube videos of the most recent NIN tour and felt like sharing.  Even though the tour kicked off only a few days ago, lots of surprisingly good fan videos are beginning to surface.  

This one is of “Echoplex,” and features a seriously cool way of setting a drum beat.  Don’t want to spoil it for you.  More videos after the break.

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Apparently so. A new song “Discipline” was sent to radio stations all across the US today, less than 24 hours after mastering. No 2 or 3 months of hype building marketing BS. Love this, and I can’t wait to hear more. Â

All Nine Inch Nails are saying about it so far is “2 weeks!” Â

I love the pace they’re setting, Ghosts came out about a month back!

Want to hear it? Â Check it out!

It’s no question Super Tuesday is one of my favorite days of the week. Â All kinds of new lovely music comes out, and I love browsing through iTunes and Easy Street to see what’s new.

Today I noticed that on iTunes, Radiohead have posted the multitracks for “Nude.” Â However, you’ve got to pay to remix them. Â It’s great that you’re putting your tunes out there for people to remix, but making them pay for them is pretty lame. Â

I’m sure that as I post this, the NIN camp is probably flipping out right about now. Â Because for some time, Trent Reznor has been offering multi-track files formatted for a variety of programs from Year Zero, Ghosts, and some from With Teeth for some time. Â Oh, and they’re free. Â And the ones from Ghosts are even licensed under Creative Commons. Â So paying for them seems to be a bit of a silly idea.

I love Radiohead and Thom Yorke, but I really haven’t been a fan of how their marketing has been unfolding as of late. Â Sorry guys. Â

I just found out today that you can listen to the new Cut Copy record “In Ghost Colors” on their MySpace page.  After hearing the first few bits of it, I can’t wait to dig into this record more!   For those of you with questions about Cut Copy:

• They are an amazing electronic band
• They sound great
• I like them

That is all, thank you.

Does anyone have any artists/tracks/records/books on your iPod (or other comparable audio player!) that you just feel like you have to keep on there, but don’t really listen to at all? I have a few:

• Â Sigur Ros (pretty much all of them)
• The softer Foo Fighters stuff (They’re best when rocking their hardest!)
• Spoon

What’s on yours?

The new record by Nine Inch Nails: Â 36 tracks of unmeasurable instrumental awesomeness.

All of these tracks are licensed under the Creative Commons, too. Which basically means you can adapt it and use it on your NON-COMMERCIAL projects for the price of free, son!

Go to ghosts.nin.com and get the first 9 tracks free!