Three weeks ago I read that the new Beastie Boys album ttfb was being released in Japan two weeks before the US. I've only bought a handful of new CD's in Japan but when something like this comes along I usually make an exception.

On the way home that day I made a special trip but stopped short when I saw the outragious price tag of 2,600 yen. To compound things the disc is copy protected, so listening on my iPod would be impossible. Okay maybe not impossible, there're always ways around copy protection but is it really worth the effort to play my music and put it onto my music player? With the so-called decline in music sales you would think the industry would welcome customers and not threating them with FBI stickers. And now the register is reporting that the CD installs a virus to computers by silently installing files that prohibit coping. The Beastie Boys were well known for having extensive creative control over their work in the past so I wonder what happened during their six year hiatus.

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