Mine is yours and yours is mine, in your honor...

[Wisemon]

First of all, Happy Birthday to me. I'm 22, and yes, like most of you, I'm still a virgin. :)

So, I just bought the new Foo Fighters CD (it came out today). It's $9.99 at Best Buy all this week. It's a good deal; 20 tracks: 10 rock, 10 acoustic. Here's the problem: it's license protected. You have to download the licensing for both CD's (go to My Computer and CD drive). In order to change the file names to include spaces and the artist, you have to agree to the pop-up each time, because it's read-only. If you want the Best Buy exclusive bonus track, it involves Napster (I'll get back to you on this). I think the tracks can be loaded onto a Dell DJ, but they're incompatible with iPods, because of the licenses. With all that said, it's probably their highest quality CD yet. This is the first time I've played a Foo Fighters CD and immediately liked every song. Some of them are good enough to merrit this type of paranoia, but I hope this doesn't become the standard. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot less music being purchased and made, in the long run.

If you're not a fan of Foo Fighters, or computer hassles, and you don't have any songs by The Offspring, their greatest hits comes out next week. If you only liked the hard songs on Audioslave's first album, don't bother with the one they have out now. Let's see...anything else out now...oh yeah...Punk-o-rama 10 is $4.99 at Best Buy this week. It has 20+ songs, and 20+ videos on a bonus DVD. Not all of the bands are great, but "Mission From God" makes it well worth the price.