Well, I finally did it. I picked up Saul William's - "Niggy Tardust" from his website the other day. $5 US for a complete album in full quality FLAC. I ignored the warnings of fire and brimstone (actually they just warned that common media players don't play FLAC; Amarok, however, has no problem at all). It's a pretty good album, one of the tracks is an excellent cover of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" I'd recommend the album for that song alone. You can grab an adequate quality mp3 version for free to try, all at the Niggy Tardust web site. It was produced by none other than Trent Reznor. Many of the songs have a very NIN feel to them with the heavily distorted electric guitars and vaguely synthetic drum lines.

As Tony pointed out in a comment, the earthquake last week was actually the largest one in bay area since 1989. I just happen to be several kilometers from the epicentre. I meant to post to that effect when I learned of it, but it slipped my mind.