My beliefs about copyright indicate to me that should I like the songs I will shortly be spending a fair quantity of money on P.J. Harvey, so that would be great!

I'd assumed you'd heard of Patti Smith because she's a) one of the proto-punk-gothic people who is the direct musical ancestor in some ways of the things that, say, the Dresden Dolls do and b) she's one of the great poets and wordplayers of rock music, and uses language in an impressionistic and layered way that reminds me of, for instance, Angela Carter. So she seemed like someone you'd have been likely to have run across.