Sunday, 5. January 2003

A good year for concerts ...


Classic acts such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Cher lured more people to concerts in 2002 and helped the industry make a record $2.1-billion in ticket sales, according to figures released Friday.

¬> St. Petersburg Times

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Album Sales Down for Second Straight Year


In more bad news for the music industry, album sales declined for the second straight year in 2002, down 10.7 percent from the previous year.

Nielsen SoundScan reported this week that 2002 album sales fell from 763 million in 2001 to 681 million. Overall music sales in 2001 had been down 5 percent — the first decline since SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991.

¬> AP

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Journal of Polymorphous Perversity


is a humor magazine that spoofs psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. In the past, readers have been treated to such articles as:

Psychotherapy of the Dead

The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood

"Life to Go": The Relationship of Country Music to Psychopathology

¬> psychhumor

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