Amazon Indie 100

Interesting to see the Amazon Indie Top 100 as published by RIAA Radar (a site dedicated to distinguishing just which artists aren't and are affiliated with the "big bad" American Recording Institute).

Indie, in this case, is pretty well defined: non-RIAA affiliated. There's a pretty well established anti-RIAA movement that has sprung up in reponse to the RIAA's heavy-handed approach to issues like file-sharing and price-fixing.

The indie list gives people the opportunity to restrict their buying to non-RIAA associated artists.

Anyway, interesting to see who's popping up in the 'indie' charts...

Some 'proper' indie artists, Mogwai, Interpol & Super Furry Animals to name but three, but also the last people you'd think of as 'go-it-aloners': Hall & Oates, David Lee Roth, and, at #1 even, Cheap Trick! Good on 'em.
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