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Why Is Bob Dylan's Recession Album $130? [Evil Corporations In Action]
Posted on October 27, 2008
Bob Dylan's new album of outtakes, Tell Tale Signs, has some great countrified blues numbers for coping with the coming depression. And in a seeming nod to the tough times, the folksinger streamed the album for free on NPR's website for a week ( Bob Dylan Understand The Weak Economy, said the Times). And yet when the compilation finally dropped earlier this month, aficionados had to pay $130 to get all 39 tracks. That you could buy a smaller, poor man's version for the usual $20 or so was no consolation to hard-core online fans, some of whom vowed to aid and abet piracy in an act of revenge...
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