Record label execs and technology enthusiasts normally contain their ongoing fued to nonverbal creations such as digital rights management or eDonkey, but this week the blogosphere saw a rare verbal articulation of each sides' grievances in this non-real-time dialogue, in which Tommy Perkins takes on Tony Brummel (full Brummel text here, registration required).
First of all, there's no way I could ever side with anyone who could call The Clash's Sandanista a "boondoggle triple album," as Perkins did, during his short, strange explanation of why albums don't make sense. But I also think it's a little unfair to call the iPod "a cannibal," as Brummel did.
I think the whole thing illustrates perfectly how little the two sides of this battle understand each other. They're both a little bit right, but sometimes two rights makes one wrong, as Mogwai would say. Why can't we all just get along?
