You know those "multimedia" CD singles you occationally get with a shite quality Quicktime 2 file of what may or may be the band you wanted playing 10 seconds of a live track? Well, they had them 20 years ago. On 7" vinyl. What? How the hell? Tape the vinyl to cassette, stick the cassette into your C64 or Atari or whatever and bang, crappy multimedia extra! (via acb)

Night Of The Living Dead is out of copyright, so you can now download it for free from archive.org. (via acb)

I downloaded the largest MPEG version but it's in a strange pixel ratio (320xsomething) which doesn't fit nicely onto VCD/DVD. It will have to be converted first, losing quality.

Australia hasn't just had a good year for music sales... Australia has had the best year EVER for music sales. Rocknerd, Slashdot, The Register (inc. info on a good year for UK music sales). SMH article.

And we're now being told by Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina that music downloads do not effect CD sales.

They also tracked the connection between downloads and the popularity of an album and found that in the case of 680 popular albums, all of which were included in one of the Billboard Charts in autumn 2002, over half the songs were never downloaded. Each of these 680 albums sold over 150,000 copies. Seventy-five percent of the songs were downloaded no more than twice while 90 percent were downloaded less than 11 times.

Google changed it's face! [slashdot.org] Changed a few links and removed image tabs and replaced them with text. I love the way this is big news. They've barely changed the interface at all and people are going nuts. It is nice to see that the changes are to reduce the page download rather than adding loads of crud.

Prince starts selling his music online. [NYTIMES] Bypassing the recording industry. He's only selling the songs not "owned" by Warner. $25 life time member of the site, access to exclusive ticket and music sales. 77 cents a song for members, 99 cents for everyone else.