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Over the weekend, appoximately 190,000 people made their way to Worthy Farm in western England to attend the 2009 Glastonbury Festival. Attendees came to see performances at what is billed as “Europe’s largest open-air music festival” on many stages over four days – headliners included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and a reunited Blur. Rainy weather did little to dampen the mood, as attendees enjoyed themselves in tent cities, concert performances, dance tents, and the surrounding countryside of Somerset, England. Collected here are a handful of images from this year’s festival. (33 photos total)

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An aerial view of the Glastonbury 2009 Festival, in Somerset, England, Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Anthony Devlin/PA) #

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A festival-goer is covered in mud after wrestling with his friend at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival on Friday June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Anthony Devlin/PA) #

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Washington is to dramatically overhaul its Afghan anti-drug strategy, phasing out opium poppy eradication, the U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan told allies on Saturday.

Richard Holbrooke, attending a G8 conference on stabilizing Afghanistan, also discussed efforts to support its August 20 election. Washington has nearly doubled its troops to combat a growing Taliban insurgency and provide security for the vote.

“The Western policies against the opium crop, the poppy crop, have been a failure. They did not result in any damage to the Taliban, but they put farmers out of work,” Holbrooke told Reuters after a series of bilateral meetings in Italy.

But don’t you dare grow a few marijuana plants at home in the US!

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Sold:750 million albums
Earned:$700 million (estimated)

Think back to the last Michael Jackson album you bought. What was the price, approximately?

Indeed.

Fuck you, Sony.