Rhinoplasty: The Music Never Plays

We hope you’ve been taking our advice and downloading the MP3s that the Grateful Dead and Rhino Records have been giving away through its Taper’s Section on dead.net, because the party may be over. Rhino recently changed the format of every file to shitty QuickTime and Windows Media files — we can’t get these new files to work, and we don’t seem to be the only ones with problems.

David Beach does a nice job of recapping the situation, including quotes from angry deadheads. This story is still developing, so look for more on what went into this decision soon from the record company and members of the band…