{"id":194,"date":"2006-08-27T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=194"},"modified":"2006-10-15T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T03:48:43","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-dont-download-this-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week &#8211; Don&#8217;t Download This Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic just released a new album.  I&#8217;ve always been a fan of Al.  The lyrics from this song give a good example why.  The title of the song is <em>Don&#8217;t Download This Song<\/em>.  Here&#8217;s a snippet of the lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><em>But deep in your heart<br \/>\nYou know the guilt would drive you mad<br \/>\nAnd the shame would leave a permanent scar<br \/>\nCause you start out stealing songs<br \/>\nThen you&#8217;re robbing liquor stores<br \/>\nAnd selling crack<br \/>\nAnd running over school kids with your car<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I also like this line:<\/p>\n<p><em>You don&#8217;t want to mess with the RIAA<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll sue you if you burn that CDR<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a grandma<br \/>\nOr a seven year old girl<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll treat you like the evil hardbitten criminal scum you are<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong here.  I&#8217;m a HUGE supportor of LEGALLY downloaded music.  I personally buy mine from the <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/storeFront\">iTunes Music Store<\/a>.  I find iTMS so convenient that I can&#8217;t remember the last time I even purchased a physical audio CD.  What amuses me about this song is that Weird Al has chosen to let you download it for free.  Rather ironic, huh?  You can get it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontdownloadthissong.com\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic just released a new album. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of Al. The lyrics from this song give a good example why. The title of the song is Don&#8217;t Download This Song. Here&#8217;s a snippet of the lyrics: But deep in your heart You know the guilt would drive you mad And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}