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By Paul Shirley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, August 17, 2009

When people talk about the music they like, they are fond of using some derivative of, "I like [insert musician] because [insert correct pronoun] really gets me." That's not true, of course. Few of Eddie Vedder's conversations with fans have been so deep that he directed Pearl Jam's next album at them. Neither is it true that the fan in question "gets" the artist. Thom Yorke has only exposed as much of himself as he'd like. Radiohead song lyrics say nothing of Yorke's affection for French win ...

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