cultural pillaging - Ravel: String Quartet (part 2)
Ok, some cell phone manufacturer turned the first couple bars of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nib9yHmCytc

(or a better version here, but it takes a few seconds to get started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSvNu4VfYvk)

...and turned it into one of the default ringtones on their handsets.

I'd greatly appreciate it if the person responsible would go ahead and quietly expire, thank you. The piece (I knew it best from the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack) will never be the same for me again, and I've only heard it in ringtone form a few times at this point... bastards.
- posted by vcmc @  2/25/2008 11:22:00 PM