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Some pretty big music news broke on Friday.

Taylor Swift has bought back her master recordings.

I know we were all worried about her.

But good for her.

We all know that this has been her goal for years now.

If you don't remember,

six years ago, Taylor's first six albums of music were sold by Big Machine Records,

the label that discovered her, to Taylor's nemesis, Scooter Braun, once represented her

arch enemy Kanye West. Taylor wasn't very happy about that, so she went nuclear on Scooter.

She unleashed her fans against him. Craig still has a couple burner accounts, just posting

Scooter memes.

Then Taylor set up the greatest spite store in the history of Hollywood. She re-recorded those albums one by one and encouraged her fans and the big streaming services to play the Taylor's

versions, not the originals, thus making the original catalog much less valuable. In the process, Taylor really

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