Anything Box Releases An Album To Share

cats writes "Anything Box, the synthpop band from the 80's who had a hit with 'Living in Oblivion' have released an introspective albumn in mp3 format under a 'freeware' style license. Anyone who has ever seen these guys perform know they are just a bunch of nice people trying to make ends meet as musicians. I had the opportunity to hang with Claude before his show in NJ at The Pipe back in 1998. He had some interesting asides about how the music business in general operates. They manipulate the artists' work as well as take huge cuts of musicians' profits. The album is available via download as one big zip file including artwork and is in mp3 format. Very cool."

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Re:why do people even bother zipping mp3s?

[Sarcazmo]

I often created self-extracting archives with an explicit recommended decompression path.

That's great for closed source software, but for something platform independant like MP3s, it's exceedingly stupid.

Tar is available on every modern computing platform, and doesn't waste time trying to compress uncompressible files.

Sometimes it's easy to forget there's more to packaging utilities than ZIP.