Bah

[kingandy]

Just found out that the remix of "Magic Carpet Ride" from the "Go" soundtrack is not in fact by Crystal Method, as my MP3 player informs me, but somebody called Philip Steir. I can only assume that it was mislabelled when I downloaded it. Why do people do that? Is it ignorance or malice? I have this vague notion that it may be in order to trick people into buying an album by an artist because they've heard something they liked that's apparently by that artist...

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[kermix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it happens with just about every artist, I'm pretty sure. I don't call it "ignorance" but I might as well. Though I think, in some cases, it's a bit of arrogance as well; it's not always possible to know a band's sound so well that you can point them out every time you hear a song that sounds like them. How many people have mistaken the dissertation on the word "fuck" for George Carlin, simply because it's about the word "fuck"?

[redhillian.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you've got a copy of that anywhere have you? The only one I've seen recently was a terrible flash version of it with spelling errors all over the thing.

[kermix.livejournal.com]

Heck, you can probably find it on p2p by looking for George Carlin or Denis Leary. At one point I saw it (and the similar faux Delta Airlines commercial) credited to John London, but don't quote me on that.