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As If the Music Wasn’t Bad Enough in this Country, the Live Nation, Tickemaster merger has been approved. I love how rock n roll used to be about sticking to The Man. Now The Man is sitting next to you at every concert, sold you your tickets, over-priced beer, merchandise, and even charged you $20 for parking. I guess that I shouldn’t say that they kill art though, but they do however, make it blatantly easy to see what is and isn’t art in this day and age.

Joel Rose’s Story on NPR - Audio Story Posted as Well

This post is probably a little behind but anyway this floored me. It’s no wonder that David Bowie noticed them! Arcade Fire’s front man and song writer calls the record “Neon Bible” an “outsider’s view of home.”