I was just reading a thread on Balloon Juice about world music. Cole mentioned RealWorld and sorta threw it out as an open thread. A few interesting suggestions but not much I hadn't heard already (hey, I have been doing this world music thing for a while now). You can check out the whole thing here. Included within is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen anyone say about any kind of music anywhere. Evah.

Most great "world" music is long out of print and available on vinyl only, although there are some contemporary labels doing a good job at compiling it.

And get off his or her lawn while you're at it. I could (and have, many times previously) go off on an extended rant about that. But, instead, let me just sum up. If y'all have seen Ghost World, that is the world music equivalent of the blues geeks from that movie.