Music section updated with some tasty new tracks that are being spun out here on the kick-ass alternative stations. Usual rules of courtesy apply.

In similar news, dooce was forced to take down her music page due to bandwidth costs. She's the reason why I started putting music up here -- I've always loved sharing good music with others, and I've enjoyed seeing and hearing what other people listen to. It's not the artists I'm protesting by downloading music, it's the record labels -- both because of the rising costs they're putting on things and also because of the fact that most of the music they're allowing out to the public these days is absolute crap. I'd gladly pay a monthly fee to a company like Napster if the selection was good and the audio quality was worth it, but the record companies are intent on squeezing every last red cent out of the consumers and not giving much back to their artists. I know for a fact it doesn't cost $17.99 to record, market, produce and ship a CD, but I can't seem to find a disc for much less than that these days. One of my former co-workers used to work for a record label and he often told me that the recording industry was one of the most cutthroat industries out there, and they'll stab whoever they need to in the back in order to make a buck.

The revolution will not be televised. Let it spread from computer to computer, from MP3 player to MP3 player, from CD burner to CD burner. Music is about the artistic expression, not the money. ("Although some money would be nice...")