Tuesday, 16 May 2006 MC LARS : Download This Song Gotta love this guy! Of course, he’s on myspace . Where else would a Post Punk Laptop Rap musician hangout! The lyrics to ” Download This Song ” are simply outstanding - a manifesto for the future of the music industry!!! Download This Song It’s 2006, the consumers still pissed Won’t take it anymore so Im writing a list Don’t try to resist this paradigm shift The music revolution cannot be dismissed $18.98 Iggy Pop CD? What if I can get it from my sister for free? Its all about marketing Clive Davis, see? If fans buy the shirt then they get the mp3 Music was a product now it is a service Major record labels why are you trying to hurt us? Epics up in my face like, Dont steal our songs Lars, While Sony sells the burners that are burning CD-Rs So Warner, EMI, hear me clearly Universal Music, update your circuitry They sue little kids downloading hit songs They think that makes sense When they know that its wrong! CHORUS Hey Mr. Record Man The jokes on you Running your label Like it was 1992 Hey Mr. Record Man, Your system cant compete Its the New Artist Model File transfer complete Download this song! Download this song! Download this song! I know I’m rhyming fast, but the message is clear You dont need a million dollars to launch a career If your style is unique and you practice what you preach Minor Threat and Jello both have things to teach! I’ve got G5 production, concept videos Touring with a laptop, rocking packed shows The old-school major deal? It makes no sense Indentured servitude, the costs are too immense! Their fingers in the dam but the crack keeps on growing Cant sell bottled water when its freely flowing Record sales slipping, down 8 percent Increased download sales, you can’t prevent Satellite radio and video games Changed the terrain, it will never be same Did you know in ten years labels won’t exist? Goodbye DVDs, and compact disks! REPEAT CHORUS You know, we just wanted a level playing field. Youve overcharged us for music for years, and now were Just trying to find a fair balance. I hate to say it, but Welcome to the future. REPEAT CHORUS 8:51:01 PM comment [ ] trackback [ ] G! Geek Round 7 Ponderings from AFL.COM.AU Man, the folks at AFL.COM.AU like to bag the saints. Look at their recent ponderings from Round 7 2. Worrying times for Saints For the past couple of years it has almost been assumed that it was only a matter of time before the Saints made a grand final and won a premiership given the talent at its disposal after years of shrewd drafting. But in light of another disappointing loss on Friday night, at the hands of Geelong, the question that has to be asked is Is the Saints window of opportunity to win a premiership beginning to slip away? After two years of bowing out in the preliminary final, the Saints have actually lost more games than they have won after seven rounds of the season and are not even in the top eight with nearly a third of the season gone yet alone in the top four where they surely need to finish if they are to win a premiership. The Saints clearly have their problems and chief amongst them is their lack of quality ruckmen a problem which has been exposed even more by the continued injury problems that have beset star big man Justin Koschitzke. While the commitment of Cain Ackland and Jason Blake cannot be questioned, they lack the height, strength and class to match it with the leagues best ruckmen as was brutally exposed by Geelong pair Steven King and Brad Ottens on Friday night. The loss of Aaron Hamill for up to six weeks with a knee injury, coming on top of the loss already of Koschitzke for a similar amount of time with a fractured skull, will put even more pressure on Nick Riewoldt in attack and its a burden he may not be able to handle because of his poor kicking for goal (see below). That in turn puts even more pressure on Fraser Gehrig to kick goals but Gehrig is in the latter stages of his career and remains one of the AFLs more unpredictable players. Similarly in midfield the Saints appear to lack pace and the injury problems afflicting new skipper Luke Ball have hardly helped and it was a worrying sight seeing the gallant young midfielder barely able to get to his feet in the rooms after the game on Friday night due to the extent of his groin problems. With Ball struggling, it has robbed the Saints of much of their hardness in midfield and again puts too much pressure on a veteran player in 34-year-old Robert Harvey, whose days of carrying the Saints midfield should be over. It all adds up to worrying times for long-suffering Saints fans and if the club cannot recover and get its premiership ambitions back on track this season, it may be that the clubs best chance of a first premiership since 1966 will have come to an end particularly with the irreplaceable Harvey expected to retire at seasons end. But Wait, There’s More Villain of the week: NICK RIEWOLDT (S