Friday, April 13, 2007

Quarters are for parking meters and we're in the record industry.

The MLB clubhouse stores across the country will soon be selling Alyssa Milano’s new Touch line of baseball apparel. Funny it's called touch, as many a star hurlers have actually touched Milano. Everyone from Crazy Barry Zito, to Brad Penny and even the Rajah of Rehab himself, Carl Pavano. Little Samantha Micelli's product line is specifically designed for women, and is available for all 30 major-league teams...including the Red Sox.
“When I go to baseball games, I want to wear fan gear to support my team, but I've found that the product mix offered in the current marketplace does not address my everyday fashion needs. Women should be able to look stylish while cheering on their favorite team.”


I am just dreading the game when we see a heffer chowing down two hot dogs wearing one of those criss crossy ones...
It's bad enough they make stupid products like this, but really! That criscross one is just not suitable for a game. I think if they want to address my needs at the ball game, I might need a Yankee logo on one of these. Someone's gotta make that happen. And everyone knows how I feel about the new hats. Ugh!

Man, you gotta love Tony Victory. And not just for making it, "Your Label, Your Music". The label owner announced it will remove its music catalog from online music store eMusic. Dude is hating on digital music services, saying it's making music "disposable." Tony Victory had a similar beef with Steve Jobs and iTunes, accusing them of bolstering their profit margin at the expense of independent labels like Victory Records. Apparently, Senor Jobs had a little more juice, as Tony Victory in an about-face, decided to license his company's catalog to Apple. As much as I've heard about that guy and his shady business practices, he did put out a couple really solid albums in the late 90's, by the likes of By The Grace Of God, Grade, Boy Sets Fire, Deadguy, Thursday and even some Refused material.



Listening Pile:
Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space which originally came out in 1997 has been rocking the random party shuffle on my iTunes. Jason Pierce(aka J. Spaceman) is, a total geniuses and extremely talented musician. Ladies And Gentlemen... captures that innovative magic. Originally, the CD coming wrapped in foil and accompanied by dosage instructions like "Play twice daily" and "May cause dizziness." The contents of the package, was powerful, dense music starting with the opening title track. Emotional, adventurous and otherworldly psychedelic symphony topped off with "I Think I'm In Love." At times the album is almost too much to take. That's why this is a perfect album to take in small, daily doses I suppose.

Some news out of the Radiohead camp about the new album. A video posted on the Vapour Bros. site with some random tunes and footage from the studio. Can't wait to hear some of those songs they played live fleshed out and in album form.

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