An intriguing list! And it being "skewed by holiday records" isn't so bad because http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001H69/magnetbox/ref%3Dnosim/102-7144600-3437756 fascinates me terribly. A merry Christmas to all, and a "bah, humbug" to the RIAA.

This whole anti-RIAA-backed-music thing is pretty stupid, if you ask me. Good music is good music, and you shouldn't boycott music you like. I think it's pretty funny that even this anti-RIAA list is out of date, considering that Damien Rice's O is being put out by Warner Bros. now (as of Dec. 9.) It just goes to show you how pointless it is - how many people will just blindly follow this site's recommendations? How many will overlook Rice's magnificent album simply because it's distributed by Warner - especially when they would have happily supported it prior to that. Face it, the tiny, TINY amount of people who would even bother to boycott like this aren't even a concern for the RIAA.

"...you shouldn't boycott music you like". Hmmmmm. I think the whole notion of boycotting anything at all could include swearing off something you like in order to make a statement about a matter concerning which you have strong feelings or opinions. A few months ago I purchased an album that I had been greatly anticipating. But when it turned out to be copy-protected, and because my primary listening device is a personal computer, and because CD + PC = nonplayability, I promptly returned it to the retailer. I admit that my motivation wasn't strictly boycotting, but I was definitely swearing off something I liked, something I liked a quite a bit. However, I agree that I and my fellow members of the TINY Club aren't even a blip on the RIAA radar.

I follow you on the issue of copy protection, because if I can't listen to a CD in the only two places I ever listen to CDs (my car and my computer - I don't even have a home stereo,) the copy protection is only harming me. What I'm talking about is that the people who would just up and boycott all CDs put out under RIAA-backed labels are likely the kind of people that wouldn't buy a whole lot of RIAA-backed CDs in the first place. However, I won't stand behind simply not buying CDs because they're RIAA-backed, because it's an elitist stance. The industry isn't going to be affected by any of this - there will never be enough people who will commit to this and there aren't alternatives out there for them to replace the boycotted CDs with (try finding an indie-artist a Britney Spears fan would like!) What I do hope people do is that if they come across a copy-protected CD that they buy it, take it back, buy it again, take it back again . . . over and over. When they've got piles of opened, used CDs that consumers refuse to keep, THAT will send a serious message to the industry. (Luckily, being in the US this has not happened to me and hopefully won't.)