New article by me: The music industry largely fails to account for collector behavior in its vinyl release strategies. I'm planning to put out a series of related articles over the next couple of months, so you may see extra vinyl content from me for a while. www.linkedin.com/pulse/music-...

Mike wrote an important one. I've been trying to put this situation into these terms and could not have outdone this. Also, Mike's reach is much greater than mine. For now.

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

As a part of today's distract-from-the-horrors newsletter, subscriber @natocoles.bsky.social offered some wonderful words about Bob Uecker. It's worth your time on a day when thinking about good people and good things should be be at the top of your agenda. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

You know...this was a predictable outcome, but instead of "Quick, we have to beef up security", I wish the CEO reaction could be, "Hey, maybe we should knock off all that evil".

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Top: me with my first rare record variant purchase, 1994. Bottom: a test pressing from the first run at Outta Wax Record Pressing, which began pressing this summer. It's tough to overstate how exciting it is to be at this stage. It's been a long road, but we're making good records! @outtawax