Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

I’ve been keeping a close eye on a couple mate’s band back in Cape Town. Their name is “The Brothers Streep”.

“The brothers’ streep are an acoustic duo combining imaginative, humorous, and often just simply random song writing, with impressive harmonies and catchy melodies. they are a band that are primarily interested in sharing their joy with others, so download their songs, become their friends, and light up your day with their music.”

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Last night I graced Goo Goo Dolls with my presence. They seemed pretty stoked I was there, John Rzeznik kept yelling, “We love you guys“.

What an awesome concert! The beauty of the Empire Theatre is it’s size. It is pretty small, so it feels quite personal. Not like the Robbie Williams concert I went to a month ago, where I was surrounded by 65 000 adoring fans, and Robbie waved goodbye from his private helicopter.

There was a good mixture of the old classic tracks like “Slide” and “Iris”, but also plenty of their new hits, like “Let Love In” and my favourite “Better Days”.

My cellphone video clips sound like Goo Goo Dolls were performing with 20 blown speakers, so rather sit back and enjoy this video.

I’ve just downloaded a video quicktag plugin that allows you to post YouTube, Googe Videos, WMV and MPEG files into your blog posts. The bonus of this plugin is that your post code remains completely XHTML vaild code.

Anyways enough about that. I downloaded this plugin specifically for this video clip, it’s that good! Have a look at this jaw-droppingly brilliant guitarist, Jake Shimabukuro, play “While my guitar gently weeps”.

I recently heard of a Russian MP3 download site, www.allofmp3.com, that sells mp3s dirt cheap, and apparently it is all completely legal. When I say cheap I mean $1.49 cheap, for an entire CD, thats like 10 rand a pop.

The question I have for you all is this:

Has anyone bought any MP3s from AllofMP3.com?

If you have, and your savings are still in your bank account, let me know, and I’ll be a registered user in a flash.

It does say this on the site, but I still can’t quite believe the price:

“The availability over the Internet of the ALLOFMP3.com materials is authorized by the license # LS-3М-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) and license # 006/3M-05 of the Rightholders Federation for Collective Copyright Management of Works Used Interactively (FAIR). In accordance to the licenses’ terms MediaServices pays license fees for all materials downloaded from the site subject to the Law of the Russian Federation “On Copyright and Related Rights”. All these materials are solely for personal use. Any further distribution, resale or broadcasting are prohibited. “

R10 a CD!