the corner office

I discovered a new word this weekend: 'sharity'. There seem to be a few unrelated software products with that name, but it also refers to music buffs who rip their old, out-of-print vinyls to mp3 and share them on the Net. Since these albums have never made it to CD, and might never make it to CD, the copyright implications seem fairly innocuous.

I can't imagine these vinyl free-for-alls will last forever though (as one blogger said, all it'll take is for someone to post a bunch of 80's Madonna vinyls and they'll all get sued), but in the meantime, following these 'underground' bloggers, many of whom are encyclopaedically clued up, is a cool way to expand one's musical horizons.