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| - While once known for its plethora of talentless artists, CD Baby has (in recent years) taken over catalogs from such luminary musicians as The Osmonds, RATT, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Murphy and Tiny Tim. CD Baby was originally incorporated under SHit Media, Inc., founded by Derek Sivers in 1997. Sivers sold CD Baby to Dick Cheney in 2008 for $22 million and rode off into the sunset with his trusty gitfiddle (while riding on a pale horse with no name.) Sivers made big hay of the sale by giving the proceeds to the Portland Musicians Union Local 99 in an arrangement that provides no musicians will ever get a paying gig in Portland ever again without being a member of the union. Sivers' employees received complimentary packages of Bacon Bits, Consolidated CDs and a cute puppy upon completion of the sale to DiscFakers Tha' Baby still operates out of a grimy neighbourhood in North Portland and most of the company's male employees can be found at The Viewpoint Topless Lounge on Killingsworth Street during their company mandated lunch breaks. Employees from Tha' Baby are also allowed to post their own post-apocalyptic tunage on the site for free... provided it does not criticize former VP Dick Cheney. CD Baby also donates 25% of all it's sales to the Afghan & Iraq war efforts through an arrangement with Halliburton, Blackwater Security, and KBR wherein employees of Tha' Baby include cocaine and heroin in shipments to Baghdad or Kabul for the youth of SE Asia.
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