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How much would you pay for the world’s most critically acclaimed bands new album?

That is the question Radiohead is asking you. When you visit the site for their newest album In Rainbows, you decide the price you pay to download the album.

You can also order the disc box, which costs 40 pounds and includes extra material. Currently the album is only available from their website.

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Check out Martin’s History of Flight one-of-a-kind acoustic guitar, on sale now for a whopping $150,000. There are some beautiful back inlays on this guitar done by some of the finest luthiers and made from some of the finest woods.

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Here is an interesting post I came across today, if your into the copyright debate about music and the internet you might like to read. Sometimes I wonder how YouTube is going to stay in business, everytime you turn around they are getting sued or someone is getting them to take down the videos.

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Here’s what gets me going; Guitar teacher’s online success unstrung by copyright dispute.

All this guitar teacher is doing is using other people’s songs as a vehicle to teach music, what’s the big deal?

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Was browsing around the web yesterday looking for common alternate tunings and came across this pretty extensive little resource on alternate guitar tunings. It has alot of detailed explanation on where alot of tunings come from and how they relate to each other, definately worth a look if you are into alternative tunings…

Click here to visit WA’s Alternate Tunings for Guitar.

This guitar video game for the Nintendo DS has already seen the light of day in Japan’s market place as “Hiite Utaeru DS Guitar M-06″. Jam Sessions is slated for release in the US in September. If you look around YouTube a little you will already see alot of videos on this little gadget. I think this actually has some use, as a portable tuner or ear training device.

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A ten foot guitar was stolen on April 20th from Curb Records in Nashville Tennessee. The guitar was hand-painted by acclaimed artist Ronnel Ventor of Franklin, and featured the face of country star LeAnn Rimes.

Curb’s Becky Judd says that the fact that the guitar was secured with concrete and locked down didn’t deter the thief. “Unfortunately, whoever took it managed to cut the lock and break the guitar from the stand,” Judd says. “I only hope they didn’t damage the guitar.”

A reward is being offered for any information leading to the return of the guitar. How do you steal a 10 foot high guitar and perhaps more importantly, what do you do with it?

Although this site is poorly designed, the content is so orginal and unique that I had to mention it here. Most of the tools and drum machines are flash so you really have to check it out for yourself. Can be fun to play around with, might be even more fun to bust out the guitar and against some homemade drum beats.

Check out the virtual drum machines or their home page.

After reading this article on Yahoo about ‘Guitar Hero II’, I couldn’t help but snicker a little especially after this:

In reality, all you’re doing is pressing a combination of buttons at just the right moment. But the fact that you’re standing up, wailing away on a toy guitar adds to the immersive quality.

And I thought to myself, the only thing better would be to actually sit and play a real guitar! Made of wood!

I am not an avid video game player. On the rare occasion I have been known to sit around a friend’s house on a saturday night playing video games, but most of the time it was just because we were to hung over to do anything else…

Ever played this?