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Minimalmusic.org reports that someone stole Matthew Dear’s removable hard drive– in the middle of his set.

Stealing a musician’s instrument (and if you perform with a laptop, that’s your instrument) is a particularly galling form of theft because the loss to the performer is many times greater than the gain to the thief.  A USB hard disk costs about $200, while the data on there probably represented hundreds of hours of work.  Both parties would have been better off if the thief took $300 out of Dear’s wallet instead.