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You gotta love the young ones for creativity. An 18 year old has been BUSTED for hacking and stealing songs from Kelly Clarkson, Ke$ha, Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga then selling them online to make some dough. How about $13,000 worth? The 18 year old is from Duisburg, German and STILL lives with his parents. He goes by the name of ‘DJ Stolen’ ( real name Deniz A.) and had a 23 year old accomplice (Christian M.) that he says “I haven’t heard from him for a while.”

Apparently he had attached a Trojan (no not the condom) to an MP3 file that was sent to the official addresses of the music stars, their managers and their record companies.

He says “I’m a fan and I just wanted to have cool music. I’m no blackmailer.”

If convicted he could be sentenced up to five years in prison.

Ke$has debut album has finally been certified platinum by the RIAA in the US. In the last 10 months it’s sold over 2 million units worldwide along with 13 million combined tracks and ringtones in the US alone.

Her single ‘TiK Tok’ has also been certified 5x platinum. Plus she became the 11th solo female artist to have at least 4 Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s from a debut album.

Pretty amazing even if I’m not really into her.

Not that I ever went to it but there is going to be some great people playing in this tour.  Beginning this summer the tour will have a ton of artists including Cat Power, Corinne Bailey Rae, Emmylou Harris, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls, Jill Scott, Ke$ha, Loretta Lynn, Mary J. Blige and tons more.  They will be hitting most of the big cities here in the US.  More information will be coming.