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Music Should Be Heard But Not Understood

PaxTech writes "Warner/Chapell music has cease-and-desisted a small freeware developer who wrote a Mac OS X lyrics downoading application. pearLyrics in no way contributed to piracy or copyright infringement, it was merely a tool to search for lyrics on public websites and view or add them to mp3 metadata. This is part of a larger crackdown on websites distributing lyrics. Apparently, the labels would like to force us back to a world where Hendrix kisses guys."

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  1. Re:Facilitators by heinousjay · · Score: 1, Troll

    They take a bold stance against war. They're possibly sacrificing their artistic popularity and credibility to make a point. You had better shape up and learn to appreciate them right fucking now.

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  2. Re:Facilitators by norc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, then the whole old asia culture couldn't count to five ? ;)

    Because I think their culture was stamped by their so-called mantras,which
    doesnt contain much more than five words in some cases.

    I think the point is not the lack of words, but the lack of sense in the lyrics.

  3. Re:Facilitators by Braino420 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you really just refer to Green Day's album as a "rock opera"? You've seriously been watching way too much MTV. Second, wtf would you want to know what they're saying, most of which is pure and utter BULLSHIT. I'll give it to Green Day, they were good; I have yet to meet a single kid who didn't own Dookie. They sold out a long time ago and most of the time there's nothing wrong with that, buuuut I think they ran out of ideas and decided to go the pop-punk route (which is probably the biggest load of teenie bopper wannabie poser bullshit I can imagine).

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