Fans of the label seeking to snap up collectable pieces can now buy the current season, evening and bridal range at slashed prices in store and online until the final day of trading.
The Tea Party congressman, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, hopes to find e-mails linking the White House to the I.R.S. examination of groups with a "Tea Party" label seeking tax-exempt status.
Bill Gaytten has been directing the studio while the label seeks a successor to John Galliano, who was fired in the spring, but Mr. Gaytten has not been seen as a likely candidate for the job since his couture collection, shown in July, was widely panned.
He got signed to Sony and even went platinum, but left the label seeking greater control over his work.
In arguments and testimony, lawyers for the record labels sought to show that an Internet address linked to a Kazaa user name belonged to Ms. Thomas.
Creed's omnipresence a decade ago transformed it from just another polarizing band into a symbol, to some, of all that was wrong with a bloated industry in which record labels sought out new artists that reminded them of older artists, pushed their singles relentlessly at radio and — in the years before file sharing crippled CD sales — reaped big financial rewards.
As American alternative bands like Sonic Youth, which had grown out of the no wave scene, and Boston's Pixies started to gain larger audiences, major labels sought to capitalize on the underground market that had been sustained by hardcore punk for years.
El Salvador, for reasons that make officials here scratch their heads, consumes 450 tons of sauce every year -- 2.5 ounces for every man, woman and child in that little Central American nation -- and has spawned counterfeit labels seeking to mimic Lea & Perrins.
SOPA, which has yet to be voted on by the US Congress, lets movie studios and record labels seek court orders to knock sites offline if they think they practice piracy or aid it.
