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To the mainstream morons, never. But even people who used to love "alt-country" seem to shy away from that term now.

I keep forgetting to ask burns3 whose fabulous rack that is in his(?) avatar.

That one is installed on a wiffleball bat.

Is it possible to listen to that seriously?

My spies tell me that Son Volt will be on Conan tonight.

And that's a good thing?

These sound good to me ... looking forward to hearing them on the CD.

"Icky Thump"? Seriously? That's what they're calling the album? Also: they're now on my shit list for re-sizing my browser window without asking. I fucking hate that. When I'm king, people who do that will be sent to the dungeons.

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I thought it was masturbation that kills kittens. I'm so confused.

I'd say there's a decent chance. It sounds like there may be a few reviewer copies out in the wild. That is by no means a guarantee (on either count).

Yeah, that actually made me pause a sec before I rained on the parade. Nicely played.

What would a Wilco-flavored cookie taste like?

napoleon is bullshitting you all, just so you know. It's not on Oink and it hasn't been.

Yeah, that's what I do with my massive external drive at work ... one of the reasons I've been showing up a lot lately in the "shuffle up and deal" thread.

I'm definitely buying it upon release, even if I'm not thrilled with it. Loyalty and all that. I'm currently trying to wean myself off of bittorrent sites, but this is one album I'll grab, precisely because I know I'll be supporting the band in numerous other ways (as I have in the past).

I was sitting in a waiting room recently when this phrase came up. (Yes, in Michigan.) The Red Sox fan said "I hate that 'Manny being Manny' shit ... Manny's an asshole. So, 'Manny being Manny' is the same thing as 'Manny's being an asshole.'"

I'm OK with no rocking out ... what bothers me is when all the songs seem to be at the same tempo. Naturally I'm hoping that isn't the case with this record. I think you want the Ryan Adams message board.

Apparently, we need to put together a CD that includes nothing but other artists' covers of "Spiders."

http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=24971

OK, now someone has to explain to me what the difference might be between "alt-country" and "southern pop." And when did "alt-country" become uncool? I just can't keep up these days. Regardless, I definitely like this new SV.

I have a 60GB iAudio X5. My main issue with having that much storage is that I can never decide what I want to hear, because there are simply too many choices. (It's even worse when I stand in front of my CD shelves ... I can burn ten minutes just making a decision.) I think my next purchase will probably be a smaller Flash memory-based player (hopefully at least 8 GB), so I can just keep on it all the stuff I'm listening to most at that moment.