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Anti-Flag will take a few months out of its socialist-propagandizing schedule to help a shoe company reach the teen market this summer.

A bit snarky, I suppose, but the article later mentions that For Blood and Empire will be coming out in March, which makes me happy. I just hope RCA knows enough not to put DRM malware on the CD.

On the subject of DRM malware, why on earth is it Windows' (and possibly Mac OS') default stance that anything put in a CD drive should be treated as autorunnable data? I'd love to be able to tick the box for "Treat all media in this drive as audio-only, and if there appears to be a data track, use a dialog box to ask whether I want to open the data track."

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Tagged by magnoliafly.

Instructions: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. "Every Time You Burp (You Gain Some Calcium)" by Anti-Ben from Bloodthirsty Benslayers
    
2. "Speeding Motorcycle" by Yo La Tengo from Fakebook
    
3. "I Have the Password to Your Shell Account" by Barcelona from ZeRo-oNe-INFINITY
    
4. "El Son No Ha Muerto" ("The son (q.v.) has not died") by Cachao (Israel Lopez) from Master Sessions Vol. I
    
5. "Kashmir" (a Led Zeppelin cover) by Squonk from an unnamed, but freely downloadable, compilation of NES chiptune covers
    
6. "Lovers of Loving Love" by The Aquabats! from The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of Death" (if you like TMBG, you'll like The Aquabats!)
    
7. "Anthem" by Wendy Carlos from Tron

And, no, I didn't take this as an exercise in proving that I have more eclectic taste than thou. I took it as an opportunity to educate my friends about stuff they may never have heard of -- thus, an eclectic selection. If you don't know this stuff, click on the links to learn more!

However, I'll bet some of my friends will recognize these songs anyway. It's funny how fiercely canonical 'eclectic' can be. (Yo La Tengo is usually a good bet to be Officially Sanctioned Hipster Cred and therefore worthless qua cred, but I just like Fakebook and especially Speeding Motorcycle. I had no idea other people considered Yo La Tengo the posers' choice until the Onion article "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster".)

Tagging, in alphabetical order:

• curious_mold
• foozini
• heathrow
• jitterbug5bi5
• rancourt
• tally_cat
• turtlebat23