So this morning, I'm flipping through a Spin magazine that I bought to read about the history of the Beastie Boys (which, by the way, I think is one of the most fascinating histories/transformations in modern music), and there's this little two page article on the "new wave of 'folk'". I was interested...it had Elliot Smith and I wondered if they would mention B&S. Thank God they didn't, because they actually seriously used a word that I had only used as a joke before: "acoustica". You're excused for the dry heave. "Electronica" is bad enough. Everything played on an acoustic guitar is all of a sudden the same genre? Let's hope this doesn't catch on. But my real business is to set the record straight (pardon the pun):

well i must omit,or at least dispute against this rumor that all new releases in the US come out on Tuesdays,for this is not true. The latest Beastie Boys LP(hello nasty) came out on a saturday,disproving the only-Tuesday rumour.

I swear, on any holy book or lyric sheet you can find, that ALL (except independently released) albums in the U.S. come out on Tuesdays, including the Beastie Boys album, which I bought on the TUESDAY that it came out. Now, once again, it's not a law that record stores can't sell it until Tuesday, but if labels find out that stores have sold it before Tuesday, they (supposedly) will stop selling new releases to that store. I'm not just trying to be argumentative, but I spent 6 years of my life working in three different record stores in two different cities that were over 6000 miles apart. I read every Billboard and ICE magazine, and I promise that new releases come out on Tuesdays in the U.S. It's the way it's done. You may have found a store that decided to sell Hello Nasty early, but the OFFICIAL release date was on a Tuesday. It's not a rumor. Sorry for making this a public letter, but I had to make sure it was known. I swear to you all, Reid +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+