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...winter--something I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. I tried branching out and found a "millennium special" in Tennessee's Smokey Mountains on a site called vacationhomes.com But at $1,300 for a long weekend, it sounded to me more like a millennium rip...
From the cover, the name and the fact that he also released his previous album around Halloween, you might wonder whether Glampire might be some rip-off of the original glam scene. Glampire's third full album, The Heraldic Universe, walks the line between dark pop and post-teenage angst. The music is a mixture of goth, synth, perky rock beats, and tinges of NIN tonalities. Unfortunately, you'll have to deal with the cheesy '80s-style electric guitar in the opening tracks. Add in Glampire's androgynous voice to the back-to-back songs "Super Sad" and "Happy Again...
...messy end last week of Woodstock '99, the three-day rock festival held in sweltering heat on an inhospitable decommissioned Air Force base in upstate New York. The overflowing Port-o-Sans that no one bothered to empty? The formidable mounds of garbage that no one collected? The rip-off prices--$4 for a bottle of water, $7.50 for a chicken sandwich? In retrospect, it seems odd that rock fans would travel halfway across the country and pay $150 a ticket to be treated worse than illegal Cuban refugees...
...covers your debts in case of an accident or loss of job, right? Wrong. That, at least, was the conclusion of a Consumers Union report out last week, which said that credit insurance, judging by the ratio of benefits paid out to the cost of premiums, is largely a rip-off, bilking customers out of $2 billion a year. Many life- and homeowner's-insurance policies provide the same level of coverage, so put your wallet away...
...with the Postal Service raising stamp rates another penny last month, what we're left with is Harvard's biggest rip...