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Now, the fact that Pearl Jam's contract with Epic is about to expire-coupled with those sagging sales-seems to have inspired the band to make nice. They not only avoided the media but famously initiated a giant public feud with Ticketmaster and stopped making videos for MTV-two of the boldest and most self-destructive stands any rock band has taken in years. In fact, band members seem to have spent the last 10 years stomping on success with their Doc Martens. It should be said, of course, that Pearl Jam has never been after the ordinary commodities of fame and money. It doesn't have the high-decibel propulsiveness of 'Vs.' or even the off-again-on-again brilliance of 1994's 'Vitalogy,' and it's certainly not the career-reviving blast that the band, its label and its fans were hoping for.

'Riot Act' turns out to be a mixed blessing, a good-but-not-great album with the usual Pearl Jam-y combination of introspection, anger and Ralph Nader politics. The record label had a better idea when it disabled every button on the Discman but PLAY: even if critics hated 'Riot Act,' there was no way to make it stop. In other words, when Epic glues Discmans shut it's protesting too much. The band's debut album, 'Ten,' sold nearly 9 million copies back in 1991, outselling Nirvana's 'Nevermind.' Its most recent CD, 2000's 'Binaural,' barely broke 700,000.

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The group's MP3s may well bounce around and like free electrons, but in the nonvirtual world, Pearl Jam's record sales have been declining steadily from day one. The headphones, similarly, had been glued into their jacks so that critics couldn't feed the CD into recording devices or speakers.ДЄpart from representing a sort of endearingly low-rent display of synergy-Sony owns Pearl Jam's record label, Epic-the bizarre security precautions only pointed up how little demand there actually is for Pearl Jam's music these days. Advance copies of Pearl Jam's latest CD, 'Riot Act,' arrived on critics' desks inside of Sony Discmans that had been glued shut to prevent the making of bootlegs.