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07.27.08 by Widge @ 11:43 am  You know, lots of bloggers and how-to-make-money business people hammer on the niche. Find a niche. Find yourself a good niche and then hunker down. Of course, to find a decent niche, you have to get creative. You don't want to think too broadly, because if you aim for too broad a niche you end up with...well, this site. But Pack Central out of Los Angeles has found an excellent niche for where to sell music: prisoners. And sadly in this country he's got a potential customer base of 2.3 million. And what can he sell to prisoners? Not CDs. Certainly not vinyl. No: cassettes. With the screws removed since they are small and metal and a no-no. But Bob Paris, the owner, has been stockpiling cassettes for about five years. His sales hit about $1 million a year. Categorized as: Music
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07.05.08 by Widge @ 8:29 pm  No, B-Naut's not in any sort of actual contest, but he is nonetheless. DJ B-Naut, for those of you just joining us is our not-so-tame resident turntablist, one of the key Needcoffee Irregulars. When we inflicted the Cow Song from Sesame Street onto audiences at our film fest, B-Naut took up the challenge and remixed the hell out of it, bitching over IM at me most of the way there. Now, B-Naut has been tapped to remix a song for Universal Records. And it's done. You can download it right now from Digital Eargasm. It's by Anything But Monday, and it's "Wild And Stupid (DJ B-Naut Sex, Cuts, and RockNRoll Remix)". Bear in mind that the song is shared via zShare and thus you may be greeted by pictures of scantily clad female bums. Anatomy bums, not women who want to squeegee your car windshield for a buck. Although if that's your thing, I'm sure you can find something on Google or Craigslist that will help you out. Anyway, potentially NSFW. And DE has auto-music playing that I can't figure out how to block. Regardless. Categorized as: Music
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06.29.08 by Widge @ 1:05 am To help get the Scarlett Johansson album I just reviewed off my mind, Wolven showed up bearing a gift: Tom Waits with the Kronos String Quartet performing "Cold, Cold Ground." Well timed, sir. Categorized as: Music
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06.27.08 by Widge @ 5:26 am Darin Strauss recently gave a reading of his new book, More Than It Hurts You. And he had John Hodgman on hand to read some of his new book. And he had Jonathan Coulton on hand to semi-launch into a Paul Simon cover. So this was an audition to get Strauss in the Rock Bottom Remainders, I guess? If only more readings were this interesting. Like, you know, mine. Categorized as: Music
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06.21.08 by Widge @ 2:26 am The lead singer of The Kinks, now solo, and actually looking pretty good for 64. A very recent performance from his latest album up top. And after the break, a performance with The Kinks from 1967. Direct link for the feedreaders. If you want the new album, you can snag that here. Or of course, the classic Kinks stuff is here. Or I stuck the MP3 sampler down at the bottom of the post. Just because. Categorized as: Music
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