The rock and roll band R.E.M. broke up this week. I feel like an odd in-betweener fan of R.E.M. in that I wasn't, obviously, paying attention to music during the indiest eighties heyday, nor was I even particularly attuned to them when Out of Time and Automatic for the People and Monster were selling mad copies (and, in the latter's case, re-
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