Local Rhythms - Buying Music From A Stolen Car

It’s the ultimate impulse buy, better than candy bars at the supermarket checkout counter.  While barreling down the highway at a healthy clip, I hear a song on the car radio.  It’s so good that I must have it.
With just the push of a button, and a little Internet magic, presto!  The song is mine.
Yep, [...]

Local Rhythms - Record Covers A Lost Art

Music will always touch us, but how will we touch music?
Swearing out loud while attempting to dislodge a CD from the case isn’t the same as tearing the plastic from a new album.
Once, that was a near-holy experience.
I’m as big a fan of MP3s as anyone – my first generation iPod is proof. [...]