Yes, it’s finally happened. If you’re a die-hard Jacko fan then you may be on your way to Las Vegas where the superstar will be auctioning off his most iconic costumes tomorrow. Items including Jackson’s 1987 Bill Whitten red coat (right), sunglasses and dozens of hats are expected to fetch a tidy sum. All profits received will not go to Jackson but to a storage facility where the Jackson family allegedly failed to pay a bill.

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Almost all music is distributed today in digital, rather than analog, form. Until recently, most digital music was sold in containers called compact discs. Developed and refined between 1965 and 1985, compact-disc technology swept the consumer market during the late 1980s and early 1990s, displacing almost completely long-play vinyl albums. In the past few years, a new method of distributing digital music has become increasingly popular: transmission of containerless files via the Internet, followed by storage on home computers.

Music distributed in this manner typically is replayed either through stereo systems attached to the home computers or through portable devices similar to the “walkman.”

The technology that has made digital music convenient and popular is MP3, an audio compression file format. Musical files compressed using MP3 occupy approximately 1/12 of the disk space occupied by uncompressed files, enabling them to be transmitted faster and stored more easily.

Two groups have embraced MP3 technology especially enthusiastically. First, musicians unable to obtain recording contracts with the major record companies have found that, at modest cost, they can record their material in MP3 format and then make it available over the Internet. Second, high-school and college students discovered that they could obtain on the Internet MP3 copies of most of the songs of their favorite musicians. A high percentage of the MP3 recordings available in this manner were prepared without the permission of the owners of the copyrights in the music.

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The Plugg has a great post about music hits that never made it but should have made it. It comes complete with samplings and they are, for the most part, very good.

Here’s what they had to say:

We’re doing Song of the Week a bit differently this time. I bet everyone has that one song in their record collection that sounds like a top 40 hit, but never really made it to the charts. We’re celebrating some of these songs this week, in hopes of kick starting everyone’s weekend with the tunes that really should have rocked the charts.

The Plugg is a good site, “plugging” music and entertainment that’s both interesting and unique.

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