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January 11, 2005

Selling Out?

Some people think the best album that the Replacements ever made was Tim. Others never forgave them for selling out to a major label. Personally, I like that album and can see the merit both in "selling out" as well as sticking with an indie.

Hosting this site currently costs me about $20 a month, plus a small annual registration fee. $20 is not much, and I get a lot from it, including CGI and MySQL, and it's allowed me to start to branch out and do some other projects, like the Georgia District Explorer, which is overdue for an update sometime soon.

Anyway, in a few days I hope to start defraying the cost (a little) of the site by adding Google AdSense Adwords to the site. Readers are under no obligation to click through to any of the sites advertised -- in fact Google forbids me from encouraging you to support a sponsor.

It is my hope that the ads will integrate into the site without bringing down the level of enjoyment that myself and readers get from the site already. Because of the nature of the Google service, hopefully we'll begin to see targeted links that actually ad to the content of the site so that everybody benefits.

If it wasn't for the cost of the site, I don't think I'd be doing this. If the ads interfere with the usage of the site, I'll pull them down. Who knows though? Maybe the prospect of making an extra few cents will propell me to blog more often than I already do!

UPDATE: Per the comment, Tim has the best individual songs ("Left of the Dial," "Kiss Me On the Bus," "Bastards of Young," etc) but also two stinkers, "Lay It Down Clown" and to a lesser degree "Dose of Thunder." Let It Be, not to be confused with the Beatles album of the same name, is more consistent. Get them both.

Posted by Chris at January 11, 2005 04:14 PM

Comments

Lay it down, clown! Let it Be is by far the better album!

Posted by: Pappy [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 12, 2005 12:37 AM

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