This is a little troublesome: Capitol Records won a ruling against a classical label, Naxos, issued sessions made in the UK for The Gramophone Co in the 1930s that had fallen out of copyright, but that were determined to be still covered by common law. I am of two minds on the issue generally. It’s strange to see Elvis lapsing into the public domain in Europe. On the other hand, Elvis hasn’t been around to enjoy the fruits of his labours for a while, either.

Of course, the original bootleg records were illegal repressings of 78s that had gone out of print… EMI could just be licensing everything in their libraries and everyone would be happy.

Finding myself increasingly addicted to Law & Order: SVU (the one with Richard Belzer and Mariska Hargitay)—which is easy considering it’s something like 20% of USA Network’s nighttime schedule now.

There’s a sample of “Go With It” up at Capitol.

I’m as familiar with the works of Jonathan King as I care to be (e.g. not very), but his parole after serving half of a seven-year sentence for paedophilia makes me think that Warden Crichton from the Batman TV series is in charge of these early releases for evil celebrities.

Lenny Bruce once said we need a celebrity killing service, but I think a costumed vigilante would be a lot more fun.

Rant in E-Minor and The Delivery Man are among a list of Tom Waits’ most cherished albums solicited by The Observer.