Links From the Week of 07-19-2026

Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 07-19-2026 There were 2 links posted this week. 07/21/2026 @19:49 The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify | Pigeons and PlanesBy the time Nine Inch Nails’ comeback album With Teeth hit stores in 2005, it had already been available to download on Oink for a number of weeks. Rather than joining the growing number of artists angry at their fans for not waiting to pay, Sheridan says they saw it as a failure on the side of the music industry. “We knew that the moment we sent it to the record label it was gonna leak. At the end of the day, Trent is a music fan too—if someone is like, ‘Hey, you can listen to the new album from your favorite band right now, or you can be good and wait three more weeks,’ of course you’re not going to wait. It's not really a moral question at that point. Instead of blaming them, we looked at the problem—which was the record label. That’s when we decided what we’re going to do is release the digital version…