It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere close to in touch with popular music. I’ve bought one album in the last year — The Nutcracker by the London Symphony Orchestra. Not exactly hip, huh? That musical lethargy combined with the obnoxious RIAA lawsuits and DRM has led to a mostly intentional boycott of the music industry. My one source of new music is when I listen to the All Songs Considered podcast. I just finished listening to their “Year’s Best CD’s” episode and highly recommend it to anyone else out-of-touch but curious about good new music.