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By Mango Starr on 10-24-2007

A list of Liars-related info you may or may not have known:

1. Liars are signed to Mute Records.
2. Mute was acquired by EMI in 2002.
3. Thus, Liars are on a major label.
4. Liars missed their recent Boise show with Interpol because their van died.
5. Liars recently covered Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings" on a 4-track DVD that was included with a 7-inch picture disc single.
6. Mute has made available four Liars songs (Liars Session). FOR FREE!
7. The tracks are: "Cycle Time," "House Clouds," "Pure Unevil," and "Plaster Casts Of Everything."
8. You can get the songs here: www.mute.biz/liars/downloads
9. You have to fill out some info first though

10. Here's where your info could go, according to Mute's Privacy Policy:

(a) to affiliated companies or subsidiaries owned or controlled by us, if any (including EMI Records Limited and its affiliated companies or subsidiaries owned or controlled by it);

(b) to our employees and agents to administer any accounts, products and services provided to you by us now or in the future;

(c) agents who (on our behalf) profile your data so that we may tailor the goods and services we offer to your specific needs;

(d) to the relevant artist and/or their management and/or agent and/or other representative;

(e) to other organisations for the administration of prize draws or competitions;

(f) to anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties under our agreement with you and/or our successors in title to our business;

(g) carefully selected third parties the products or services of which we think may be of interest to you;

(h) if we have a duty to do so or if the law allows us to so.

By David Nadelle on 10-23-2007

The Recording Industry Association of America has sent its latest wave of threatening letters to college campuses throughout the United States. The latest batch (411 sent to 19 schools) are preemptive settlement attempts on behalf of the major record companies, bringing the total number of notices to 3,740. Part of an initiative to educate students and deter illegal file trafficking on campuses, this is the ninth wave of resolution letters, created to give downloading scoundrels the opportunity to resolve copyright infringement claims before legal action is taken against them.

“While it’s undoubtedly our last preference to bring legal action against students, music theft remains particularly acute on college campuses,” says Steven “Marky” Marks, executive VP/general counsel of the RIAA. “This theft triggers a harmful domino effect throughout the music community -- thousands of regular, working class musicians and others out of work, record stores shuttered, new bands never signed. When faced with this reality, we have no choice but to hold those individuals responsible for ignoring the law and all the great new legal ways to get affordable, high-quality music.”

In its latest press release, the RIAA reports that a survey by Student Monitor found that over half of students illegally download music and movies, and the NPD Group of market researchers surmised that $1.3 billion were lost due to college student downloaders during 2006. If that were not enough of a cause for concern, Tiny Mix Tapes polled our college readership (17 students) and found that downloading is now a more attractive past-time for male students than “polishing your rifle” by yourself as you cry in your lonely dorm room, and more fun than driving a fellow student to an eating disorder for female scholars! DAMN YOU DOWNLOADERS!