Subject URL: The Metre

Looks like "The Metre" is the next single from Powderfinger's ultra-average-but-less-disappointing-than-the-new-Tool-album "Odyssey Number 5". I had to find out this through EBay sales of the single, then spotted it on Powderfinger.com. Tracks on EBay listed as...

ODYSSEY # 3
METRE, THE
NUMBER OF THE BEAST, THE
WAITING FOR THE SUN
WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY (PIAN...

Obviously not in order. Listed on Chaosmusic as coming out 27th Aug 2001. Usually Powderfinger B-Sides kick but I fear these may well suck as much as the last lot...

Subject URL: Lost sales my ass

It's comments like these that make my blood boil :

The Recording Industry Association of Korea, a lobby of 133 music labels that sought the indictment, begs to differ. It estimates that local labels lost $154 million in album sales last year based on Soribada's 4.5 million registered users.

Complete bullshit and they know it. Those estimates are based on the assumption that if the users didn't have Soribada they'd have bought everything they downloaded. Rubbish! Especially when you look at facts like this...

But there is no indication of an overall decline in music sales from 1999 to 2000. The industry says album sales in South Korea totaled $31.5 million in 2000, up from $29.2 million the previous year.