Category: Music (Page 6 of 6)

Q. How can you turn $55 into $80 without trying?

A. Buy tickets through Ticketmaster.com.

I’ll spare the usual rant, but just FYI: A pair of $27.50 concert tickets are going to cost me $40 apiece (before shipping costs) when I buy them later today. Who’da thought I’d long for the days of the $3.50 convenience charge?

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s Weasels Ripped My Flesh is one of rock’s all-time great album covers. Zappa ripped off the idea from this Man’s Life 1956 pulp-mag cover. Here is the story behind its conception (keep scrolling down) and an analysis of the cover. (Yes, dear, I was on FilePile again)