Gizmodo announces war on the RIAA during the month of March. OK, it's not a war, but a boycott, which is still a continuation of politics by other means - in this case economic. So it would seem like such schemes can circuit bend capitalism for a positive feedback into democracy, not just its distortion/negation. And if a DJ/producer getting arrested by the same companies that paid his mixtape productions doesn't seem like having anything to do with democracy, consider this video:

Still not sure?
Compare Copyright vs. Creative Commons and consider what the music culture might be if imagination could run independent of industrial/corporate law. Here is a trashy cult-movie example of such "unimaginable" exploration.

So here's to a month free from the rule of RIAA (emusic is a great legal alternative), higher concert attendance, and imaginative future.

thanks to ori for waking me up to this track.
since last november, warrior queen has been one of my few "myspace" friends from the london grime/dubstep scene, so an oriental core remix will be coming shorty

Sunship 'Almighty Father'

Grand Central Terminal, New York City, February 2007: chocolate-caramel, pornmags & maybe Kafka