Cubism in the USA...

That's what the headline is today on Pet Shop Boy's Official website today.

I will hopefully receive my copies within the next day or two. It was a sad day today in what is known as the heart of the Midwest. With all of the independent record stores either run out of business or being bought out by the conglomerate retailers, there was no place to get a copy of the DVD on New Release Tuesday. Best Buy and Circuit City has it online. Borders doesn't have it in store or even online. It's circumstances like this that reinforce my lack of faith in record companies distribution of Pet Shop Boys products. The recording industry whores bitch about people downloading illegal copies of music and videos. Sure there will always be arse wipes that will always download P2P illegally and nothing will ever change that. The recording industry whores were even too secure with the physical product that they never bothered to do the digital downloads prior to the original Napster. No one will ever convince me that some college kid invented the idea. Record companies are so full of themselves that they thought no one would ever run their profits down with free downloads.

While the RIAA bitches sat with their thumbs in their arses instead of catching up with technology, they pulled their lawyers into a circle jerk and worked on a way to get revenge. Instead of working on a positive solution to illegal downloads such as incentives like reducing the cost to consumers of overpriced Cd's. Or working on digital download sites that they could control. But the RIAA's lawyers went banging on Internet Providers doors demanding IP addresses and threats of lawsuits on the customers they lost due to their own stupidity.

They say the oldest profession in the world is prostitution. Well, that makes record company executives the second largest profession and that would be Pimps! They have pimped musicians ever since the first piece of recorded music.

If it wouldn't have a negative effect on European CD sales, I would love to see US record companies go broke and only have digital downloads. It wouldn't hurt Pet Shop Boys US sales. US record labels suck and need a kick in the arse. :o)

On 12 July, Neil and Chris renewed their contract with Parlophone. If you go to their website, you can see Neil (supposedly) signing the new contract. Can anyone see who is missing from the picture? No, I'm not referring to Chris. He (supposedly) took the picture. Nice Picture of Neil, Chris! But where are the record company executives? I hope Parlophone supplied a postage paid envelope with the paperwork. LOL

Thus, this brings me to the next topic. It deserves a separate mention.