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RIAA Settlement Gives School Kids Big Pun, Barry White, Yanni CDs

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explodet

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You can't make this stuff up, folks.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/179304_cdupdate24.html

Listening to oldies such as "Mr. Bojangles" and "What's Going On?" might be a fun music history lesson for schoolkids in King and Pierce counties. But 413 free copies of "Greatest Hits 1971" might prove to be too much of a good thing.

And 387 CDs containing explicit lyrics by the late Puerto Rican rapper Big Punisher, along with 356 copies of "Staying Power" by the late Barry White, weren't high on the public schools' wish list.

Raunchy music wasn't what anyone in education or the Attorney General's Office had in mind when they announced that a windfall of music was coming to public schools and libraries from last year's $143 million anti-trust settlement with the recording industry. The industry was accused of setting artificially high prices.

Washington got 115,241 music CDs -- which would retail at $1.5 million -- out of the deal. Boxes of free music began hitting schools and libraries last week.

But some teachers are not sure what they will do with, for example, 114 copies of Meredith Brooks' "Blurring the Edges," which includes the Grammy-nominated song, "Bitch."
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Lara Weigand, librarian for Tacoma Public Library, checks out some of the CDs the library received as part of the music industry settlement. The large number of little-known CDs has disappointed Weigand. (June 24, 2004)
 
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LOL that is just too absurd. Man you almost gotta love the RIAA just a little bit for so thoroughly embracing their evil jackassedness that they'll fuck over school kids in order to save a few bucks on a legal settlement.

Washington got 115,241 music CDs -- which would retail at $1.5 million had the RIAA not clearly just grabbed whatever unsellable overstock they had cluttering up warehouses -- out of the deal. Boxes of free music began hitting schools and libraries last week.
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explodet

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Fleming said:
Michael Moore should make a movie about Music industrie.
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He's got bigger fish to fry - plus he'd probably have a hard time relating it back to someone or something in Flint, Michigan. However, someone else can, and should, make a movie about it.

And for the record, I've got nothing against the late great Barry White - but if I was a teacher, I'd think twice before playing that music to school kids.
 
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sc0la

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They should take them all back to WalMart for store credit. Take down two birds with one stone!
 
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In all seriousness, this is probably cheaper then storing them in a warehouse or having to throw them out. Damn that sneaky RIAA!
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

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That's such bullshit. The next time RIAA sues someone, they should settle by handing over a collection of porno movies as payment. I just can stand how these lawyers and courts allow companies to get away with this crap. You should not be able to settle and pay with something less than cash. Far too often have companies paid in vouchers and to add insult to injury they more often than not require you to buy MORE of their damn products! Damnit I loathe this soo freaking much.
 
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Shinobi

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Fleming said:
Michael Moore should make a movie about Music industrie.
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Amazingly I think he'd have a harder time exposing that corrupt ass organization then the Bush administration...the RIAA seems that firmly entrenched. Fucking roaches.
 
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Shinobi said:
Amazingly I think he'd have a harder time exposing that corrupt ass organization then the Bush administration...the RIAA seems that firmly entrenched. Fucking roaches.
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He could just do his normal routine of using half-truths and distortions to make a movie that does nothing other than preach to the angry mob-like choir. He could even do a couple TV Nation like assaults of the RIAA's corporate headquarters for filler or maybe even toss in footage of the Nick Berg beheading to spice things up.
 
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Shinobi

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Wouldn't bother me...anything to expose the cocksuckers. And as far as Bush goes he's the master of using half-truths, so I could give a fuck what's used to expose his lying ass.
 
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MetatronM

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Really, the RIAA are such assholes as to be laughable. How big of a douchebag do you need to be to work there?
 
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miyuru

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lol, man the RIAA totally pwned them!

I don't quite understand why they had to give out CDs in the first place though.
 
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