The Toronto Star has alread begun fantasizing about bringing Sean Avery to the Maple Leafs. I think this is a brilliant idea; having Sean Avery, Darcy Tucker and Tie Domi would create some sort of critical cheapshot-artist mass who would form this ball of white hot goon light. It would be awesome to behold. Unless you were talented or French-Canadian in any way, and then they would stab you.
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eMusic is really pissing me off. For the longest time they didn’t list the new Magneta Lane album in their catalog; now that they finally do, they’re telling me that I can’t download it because it’s not available to Canadians. Dan != happy. Now I have to buy the disc, which seems like a big waste of my monthly eMusic fee.
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
[…] I’ve pretty much had it with the recording industry. I’m tired (and apparently so are a lot of Canadian musicians) of “copy-controlled” discs that make it hard to convert the music to the format I want and won’t play through my Roku because of license bullshit. I’m tired of paying $10 a month for a music download service when they only carry one out of every five albums that I’m looking for, or worse yet, tell me that I can’t download music by a Toronto band because the site and the label haven’t got their licensing shit straight. […]