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  • Burning the Faithful

    New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left

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    Nov 10, 2005
    The increasingly combative File-Sharing Wars have come to this: Record companies now assume you have criminal intent whether you buy CDs honestly or not. Recent releases from Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, Velvet Revolver and Neil Diamond have placed new, unexpected limitations on your ability to rip, store, copy and...
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    The Essential Johnny Cash / The Fabulous Johnny Cash / Hymns by Johnny Cash / Ride This Train / Orange Blossom Special / Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter (Columbia Legacy)

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    May 9, 2002
    Perhaps no one has summed up Johnny Cash better than Richard M. Nixon: "Yours is truly the voice of America, as rich and strong as our nation itself." Cash's nearly 50-year recording career has produced an enormous body of essential American music, most of which has been spottily issued domestically...
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