The Red Army Choir strikes again

The world is a very strange place. If you know the origins of this blog (see sidebar), you might laugh as hard as I did at this (and wonder even more about Kid Rock):

Kid Rock doesn't steal, but is there anything original about him?

Speaking of Kid Rock, of course, brings to mind his own appropriation of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama, Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London, and Bog Seger's Night Moves, which can't help but bring back a fond nostalgia for the much maligned decade of my teens (the '70s). I have no doubt, of course, that Kid Rock paid big bucks to the copyright holders of the songs he appropriated (though, perhaps, not to Seger, from whose Night Moves there isn't quite copying), but I'm sure he's made far, far more than he paid.

And could there possibly be a more fitting instance of The Manual's principles in action?

Kid Rock says he was kidding about saying it's okay to download his songs for free.

Kid Rock, "who has resisted selling his music on iTunes and other online stores, tells The Associated Press he was just kidding." (Hope AP doesn't send me a takedown notice!)