Aelven Aetherics, June 1 - And we find out that Amazon.com are dicks

Here's another entry in our back-dated catalogue (I swear we'll catch up some day). Here's the playlist for the set I played on June first:

1. Coin Operated Boy (Pop mix) by Hands Up Squad Vs Sioux Deejays
2. Salvation Tambourine by Duke Special
3. Brain Damage by Celtic Pink Floyd
4. Le Toit Du Monde by Rajna
5. Stairway To Heaven by Rick Wakeman
6. 4.35 In The Morning by Saint Etienne
7. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Black Label Society
8. More and More by Kim Boekbinder
9. Taking Flight by Escape The Clouds
10. Hell In A Handbasket by Voltaire
11. Percy Has Returned by Katzenjammer Kabarett
12. Marchenlied (Liebeslied) by Umbra Et Imago
13. We Decide by Dr. Steel
14. Exhaustible by DeVotchKa
15. Cold Comforts by The Extraordinary Contraptions
16. Sam Lord by We are the Storm
17. Kabulectro by Balkan Beat Box
18. Drum Solo by Dr. Samy Farag
19. Tightrope by Makaras Pen
20. Man With the Lazy Eye by The Axis of Awesome
21. Brazil by Max Raabe & Das Palast Orchester
22. Forgiven by Within Temptation
23. Nosy Neighbor by The Ditty Bops
24. You Shook Me All Night Long by Hayseed Dixie
25. Kiss by Max Raabe
26. The Wrong Side by Abney Park
27. Ampersand by Amanda Palmer
28. Worse Things by Johnny Hollow
29. Illusion by VNV Nation
30. Nikola Tesla by 8in8
31. Synaesthetic by Blue Man Group
32. Extra Extra by The Gypsy Nomads
33. Chaos Boogie by Tony Joe White

Now, you may have noticed that, unlike most of the sets I've posted before this, there are no hand-dandy links you can use to buy the music if you wanted to. This is because California (the state I live in) just signed a law that said that Amazon has to pay taxes on the affiliate sales it makes. So, Amazon, as is their right, cancelled every single affiliate account they had with any person or entity registered/residing in California. But they're going to keep selling products to people and businesses residing in California. And they've done the same thing in every other state that has decided that commissions to state residents are taxable. Now, while I'm not sure that those taxes themselves are constitutional (since regulation of interstate and international commerce resides in Federal hands), taking awayincome from people who've been selling things for you in one state while still selling in that state yourself is a dick-ish move.

So, I'm working on finding ways to provide you with links to the music from other sources, I have removed Amazon ads from this site and recommend that you find other ways to pick up your online goods.

And, with that piece of economic drama out of the way, here's the link for this week's show.