Digital Music | Ep #60

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This week we dig into digital music access and discover a thorny Pandora's box (not to be confused with Pandora.com, which, incidentally, we also discuss). What is to become of the jewel case moguls? Join us as we find out.      

 

Show Notes: 

00:52 Napster

04:58 Metallica: "Napters bad!"
06:20 The argument for analog
15:10 Portlandia: "We can pickle that!"
16:40 Interlude: NOFX: "One Million Coasters"
17:40 "Upgrading"

19:30 The MP3 quality trade-off
22:17 Cloud storage and the limits of digital-only
26:20 Drew's self-imposed CD challenge
30:15 What's wrong with the new iTunes
31:20 Interlude: "Weird Al" Yankovich: "Don't Download This Song"
33:35 The entitlement era
44:25 Interlude: Reel Big Fish: "Sell Out"
47:05 Tim Armstrong's song of the day
48:37 Streaming (Rdio / Pandora / Spotify)
51:20 Where's the money going?

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Digital Music | Ep #60

Addendums 02 | Eps 16 - 30

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It's time for another retrospective. Stand back, as we open the vault doors and reexamine topics that were previously thought to be exhausted. Don't worry, we didn't watch Grease 2 again. (but we will talk about it)

Show Notes: 

03:03 The Hourchive Expanded Universe / Boba Fett / Dash Rendar

03:24 The Creeps / Sesame Street / SCP-1981 / The Creepification of VHS / Lake Mungo

13:05 Interlude: The Queers "Like a Parasite"

13:39 Video Rental / Video Free Brooklyn / Scarecrow Video / Scarecrow Video on Twitter / Vulcan Video / I LUV VIDEO / The VHS Culture

20:38 Adolescence / Josh joins via cell phone / Minecraft / Seeds / Herobrine, Herobrine, Herobrine / Sapphire Dragon (image)

27:55 Interlude: Bobby Yarsulik "Minecraft: The Song"

28:54 The fabric of The Hourchive

29:50 Grease 2 (1982 movie series #1) / The Nerd

32:30 Social Media / Facebook IPO

34:30 The stamp / How The Hourchive works

36:35 Game Shows / Supermarket Sweep / Shop 'Til You Drop

38:32 Landmarks / The World Trade Center

42:48 The Hourchive River

43:00 Marvel Cinematic Universe / Tom Hiddleston is awesome

45:05 Interlude: Tom Hiddleston on Jurassic Park

46:24 The Incredible Hulk Returns / The Trial of the Incredible Hulk

48:58 Zombies / The Sprites "George Romero" / Lucio Fulci / The Beyond (warning: graphic) / Shark vs. Zombie from Zombi 2

53:44 Board Games / Chess / Risk / Axis & Allies / Small World

58:02 Rock Shows / Fuel / Jimmie's Chicken Shack / Roach and the merch table / Stroke 9 / The Who

1:02:35 Interlude: The Who "Baba O'Riley"

1:03:56 The importance of a good crowd

1:05:14 Summer Vacation / John hates BBQs / Drew hates the beach

1:09:03 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982 movie series #2) / E.T. Adventure! at Universal Studios / "Goodbye Meeknok!"

1:15:47 The Great Outdoors / Riddled with mosquito bites / Fresh night air

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Addendums 02 | Eps 16 - 30

Social Media | Ep #20

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Friends, followers, plus-ones and pinheads; this week we get serious about social media and defend our natural right to narcisisim and nonsense. Like this podcast? Like this podcast! See what we did there?  

Show Notes: 

01:15 Can everyone "friend" everyone?
03:35 Usenet/Newsgroups 
05:24 Drew gets some e-guff

07:09 AOL/Prodigy and bulletin boards
10:50 The glamorous life of a forum moderator

15:56 Interlude: Blink 182: "Online Songs"

16:40 Friendster / Orkut / MySpace

19:30 Mark Faceberger

24:20 Interlude: "Facebook Manners and You"

24:55 Trolling for responses (but not Troll 2-ing) 

26:00 In defense of nothing

38:25 Keyboard activists
39:20 Interlude: "Do I have your full attention?" (The Social Network)

45:20 Facegram

49:25 Pinterest

53:59 The Google+ joke

57:50 Social everything

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Social Media | Ep #20