Frankly, you get what you deserved for buying a Coldplay CD in the first place

3 January 2006 Rob Buckley Music Post a comment

This is from the CD insert for the Indian release of Coldplay’s X&Y. In case you were wondering, you don’t get to read it until you’ve bought the CD. Anyone want to clear up what CD players it actually will play on? Or why you’d want to, given it’s Coldplay?

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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