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Why? They arent saying "this is the only place to get this" or anything. I know plenty people with music blogs who say "if you like this stuff, buy it, don't just download it"

It's fair to say the vast majority will ignore such advice.

Easyworld! Whatever happened to them, they were brilliant? Bleach was an absolute corker of a song!

Poor man's JJ72!

Not to completely change the topic here, but is it all music downloading you find disgusting, or just those records that put the money towards charity?

Annnnnnd, the Grizzly Bear track is soooo soo good.

All illegal music downloading is undesirable in my opinion, although I'm no angel in that regard. In the case of charity records I think it is particularly reprehensible. You might go out and buy the actual record (good for you), but not everybody is going to do that when they can just get it for free. The people responsible for putting it on the blog should be ashamed of themselves.

Why is it disgusting?

(I downloaded it from a blog because it's not out yet, but i fully intend on buying it.)

Well, I think from what you've said in brackets that you have deduced yourself why I might think it "disgusting".

I've seen this being given away for free on blogs, it's disgusting. The National's song on it is pretty good.

As a diabetic I always getted excited by "no added sugar" but I'm inevitably let down when I see that the natural sugar content is already too much for me. Diabetic jam is just gross, though not as gross as diabetic chocolate.

I think all the places I can think of off the top of my head have been mentioned already. Other places are too personal to myself and closely related to specific memories. They would probably seem very insignificant to everyone else.

I'd maybe say the Glenfiddich Distillery because I remember taking various foreign visitors there and specifically remember picnics on the picnic tables (conventional I know), being scared of the video at the start of the tour and hating the smell in the mash room.

Anti-football by Aberdeen in the second half, but they can't really be blamed.

I've heard good things about the Threatmantics so I may pop down for that show.

Momus - Forbidden Software Timemachine

Magnetic Fields - Distant Plastic Trees/The Wayward Bus

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post-Pavillion

The Pastels - Mobile Safari

Arthur Russell - Another Thought

Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: (preordered)

It might actually be a good idea to make such a list, because otherwise stuff I've been "meaning to buy" will just be forgotten.

I think the second series has actually already been made hasn't it?

I thought the show was ok, Neil Oliver just makes me laugh. Every episode seems to feature slow motion clips of different things falling to the ground, be it chess pieces or blood.

Went to see Mark Gatiss do a Q&A/signing last night. I realised I was mainly there because I like the League of Gentlemen and Nighty Night and such, so I thought I'd better get into his books. Bought the newest one last night and have bought the first two today, so they're all getting read.

I've just started reading the Vesuvius Club, and very good it is too.

Not yet!

Well get on it. It's da best mang.

Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners - The Projected Passion Revue

I'm pleasantly suprised. You got Searching For the Young Soul Rebels?

Do you twink it will be a good night then?

You people are pretty perceptive. I didn't even realise some of these things annoyed me until I read them here and really thought about it!

As regards the Rangers/Celtic thing, I'm a Rangers fan and have absolutely no patience for this kind of crap. Also, people who, upon discovering I'm a Rangers fan, give me all this "Rule Brittania" bullshit, basically assuming that I'm automatically some kind of sectarian twat.

I agree, being a Celtic fan. I'm offended by people's ignorance and stupidity when they call me a Fenian. How could I take part in nationalist movement that ceased to exist long before I was born and in an entirely different country. It is often the people who make such stupid comments who then have the cheek to complain about the plight of sectarianism, which the Old Firm bring to Scotland.

The Magnetic Fields @ Cadogan Hall, London

I have the green-eyed gazungas for that one.

1. Person one says something.

2. Person two makes a funny but subtle remark in response. Something which is funnier because it wasn't stated in an obvious way, so you didn't 'get it' until you thought about it.

3. Person one reiterates the remark, stating the joke in the most painfully obvious way, even though everyone listening got it the first time. Then acts like they made the funny comment.

So annoying.

Oh, and people who use the word 'literally' for emphasis when they actually mean it in an entirely non-literal way.

eg. "God, you should have seen how angry he was. There was literally steam coming out of his ears"

What?! No there wasn't, because such a thing is medically impossible. What you meant to say was figuritively speaking, but since most people would assume that anyway, there was no need to use any word whatsoever. GRRRRR

I espcially agree on those two. I remember in WWE good ol' JR always used to say that two wrestlers were "literally beating the hell out of each other". Now that would be worth seeing.

Once got threatened with a booking for my boot laces repeatedly coming undone. Other than that i was Paul McStay-esque in my model behaviour.

a 6 cd box set of wedding present peel session, only 16-99 on either play or amazon (cant remember which) a must for any weddos fan

been buying some old albums recently

the buggles - the age of plastic

m - the best of

abc - beauty stab

abc - how to be a zillionaire

soft cell - the bedsit tapes

billy mackenzie - outernational

Any solo Billy McKenzie actually worth listening to? And how about The Beauty Stab?

Those are funny reviews, and there are enough of them that I can save some for a rainy day.

Copied, and slightly modified from, the "Best of 2008" thread:

1. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto

2. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins

3. James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In

4. Beach House - Devotion

5. M83 - Saturdays=Youth

6. Portishead - Third

7. TV On the Radio - Dear Science

8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

9. The Week That Was - The Week That Was

10. Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby

Honourable mentions to Fleet Foxes (actually maybe they should be number 10), Aidan John Moffat (or him), Eugene McGuinness (or even him), Frightened Rabbit and Magnetic Fields.

Best Re-Issue: The Triffids - Treeless Plain/The Black Swan/Beautiful Waste

Best Compilation: Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

Biggest Disappointments: British Sea Power and Magnetic Fields albums (even though they're both decent)

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

Bassment for pre-gig drinks methinks...

I'll be the one without the pointy shoes

Strictly sports-casual.