wtf, traditional media distribution channels?

Dear record industry,

Over the past year there have been a number of times when I heard a song and liked it so much that I thought, "I would like to give people money in exchange for this music!"

50% of those times, this has resulted in the simple enough procedure of ordering it from a CD store or digital music store.

The other 50% of those times, when I have searched these sources for music, it hasn't been available to me because I live in Europe.

Now, let me explain something to you, record industry. The fact that you haven't released a single to the radio in Europe? Doesn't mean that people in Europe don't know about it. There's something called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T and, thanks to the fact that artists (and also your companies) like to use it for promo, people all over the world can stumble over clips, advertisements, even full streams of this music over Internet radio, official websites, last.fm, etc.

So when my local music supplier can't give me my desired goods in exchange for the money I earmarked for them, I'm not putting it in a jar and marking the six-months-away date when said music is slated for European release on my calendar. No, I'm putting the money back in my wallet, and then I'm looking around the Internet for the music. It's not hard to find. In fact, finding the music for free is a much simpler process than paying for it. So you're not doing yourself any favors here. You're just ensuring that people get tired of listening to it and probably forget about it by the time the opportunity to pay you for it arrives.

Love,
Cim

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Ox in metallic silver and sparkle purple

what the shit is this? warning: mannequin used as furniture

There I was, innocently watching ten-year-old television last night, when this UNSPEAKABLE HORROR assaulted my eyes: a side table made out of a mannequin! An honest-to-Gaga, bewigged, creepy-greyish-makeup-painted mannequin set at blowjob height, so presumably bits of its plastic anatomy have been removed which just makes it worse. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, show? WHY?

 







You know what else I hate? NINJA MANNEQUINS. Of course, I've been to stores all my life, and was quite used to the traditional Mannequin Display, where a little cluster of mannequins would stand posed together in a special stage area, usually on top of a platform or something. But in the past few years in Finland, it's become edgy or in vogue to stick some mannequins in naturalistic poses, bring them down to floor level, and position them, often isolated, right in among the clothes, so that you typically don't notice right away that they aren't real people. AUUUGHH. WHY. Why do you need your mannequins to infiltrate? What's wrong with everyone knowing that the mannequin is a mannequin and people are people and never the twain shall meet?

And while I'm at it, Stockmann, why would you cover your male mannequins' lower faces AND CHESTS with spray glue and then dust them with little bits of chopped up nylon "hair"? IT'S GROSS AND IT LOOKS WAY LESS REALISTIC THAN PLAIN PLASTIC. Actually, it looks like he's just been to the barber and had an epic haircut while not wearing a bib. Although I can't really think of any explanation for why his face is covered with fuzz. Maybe he rubbed his face with a balloon and then rolled on one of those synthetic carpets that's always shedding.