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Igor Vovkovinskiy next to a (full sized) Porsche. China's abandoned Disneyland.

I posted this on FB, with an accompanying rant.

^ It's true. The sad part is that many of these labels (Pork Recordings and Superstition Records are two easy examples) went bankrupt and the licensing for their extensive and wonderful back catalogs is in limbo. There are some exceptions, of course. Fila Brazillia got the rights back to their material and it's all on their own TwentyThree records. Oliver Lieb has the rights to some of his work released on Superstition and has been remastering and re-releasing it on his BandCamp page, a fact that has made me happier than a pig in a bad metaphor. Of course, all of the above doesn't add up to a single mp3 on AMZN's new service. [hipster frowny face]

AMNZ's new AutoRip service gives MP3s to customers who bought CDs from Amazon within the last 15 years. Of course, since just about every CD purchase I've made from them has been on an obscure electronic music label, exactly none of my purchases are eligible.

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Motorhead's Lemmy Unveils 'Anti-Beats' Headphones at CES Because fuck you, Dr. Dre.

Contains snake eating. TL;DR on the SteamBox:

via Where did the soda go?

...and now another installment of Unnecessarily Large GIF Theater:

The $2 million Leica lens you’ll never get to see.

What the actual fuck?

The Swedish Fish Mafia.