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The two most popular albums at the iTunes Music Store today are X & Y by Coldplay and Get Behind Me Satan by the White Stripes. To encourage you to make a purchase, the store describes the White Stripes album like this:

The White Stripes unleash their latest album, Get Behind Me Satan, a fiery, brash blast of new music. Recorded in just two weeks at Jack White's Third Man Studios in Detroit, the new record comes with...

Yep, just two weeks. Earthy and raw. And why do the marketing folks think you should also buy the Coldplay album? The blurb for X & Y begins like this:

18 months in the making, the new record from perhaps the most critically acclaimed band in the world is now available.

You see, they've got a little something for everyone.

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Reader Comments
June 11, 2005, 07:45 AM

Coincidentally, I've just been reading reviews by Sasha Frere-Jones of these two albums in the "New Yorker": here and here.

June 13, 2005, 06:41 AM

Aren't you contractually-obligated to bookend any reference to Coldplay with the phrases, "biggest rock band in the world" and "heirs to U2's throne"? The marketing team at their label deserves some kind of prize for the way they've sold this album as an EVENT.

June 27, 2005, 06:34 AM

Correction.

This just in.
A team of archeologists at a dig in the city of San Francisco have unearthed a tablet long believed lost. Carbon-dated to approximately September 2003, it bears a hand-written message from author Rob Davis. It says:

[Sorry, I have been unexpectedly incommunicado for a week or so due to some travel.]

Yes, it's true.
To view tablet, wag your finger here

June 27, 2005, 06:39 AM

Correction to the correction.

To view tablet, go to the very bottom of this page.

Thank you.