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Artists Protesting Single-Song Downloads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-artists dept.

prostoalex writes "The 99 cent downloads are stirring some discussion in the music community. Linkin Park, Radiohead, Madonna, Jewel and Green Day are protesting music stores' policy of single-song downloads and introduce some stipulations, requiring their work to be sold as albums. "The fear among artists is that the work of art they put together, the album, will become a thing of the past," says attorney Fred Goldring, whose firm represents Will Smith and Alanis Morissette."

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  1. Re:Typical...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are SO right ...

    But let's not compare a Radiohead album with a Green Day album :)

  2. the solution is simple.... by katalyst · · Score: 4, Funny

    let the user download the WHOLE album for 99cents. :D

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  3. I'm really out of the loop... by MungoBBQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one who read the sentence "The 99 cent downloads are stirring some discussion in the music community." and thought that "99 cent" was some new hip-hop artist I hadn't heard of?

  4. Re:Typical...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linkin Park has "many popular singles" because they keep releasing the same exact song over and over again.

  5. Re:Albums are already a thing of the past! by FrostedWheat · · Score: 4, Funny

    N'Sync, Spears, Idol stars, etc.

    You misspelled 'idiot'.

  6. I know why artists are pissed... by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    With tracks being sold one-by-one the can no longer do that hidden track gimmick that got old in '83.
    Personally, I'm just curious what the the track-by-track pricing scheme would be for an album like "NIN-Broken" where they've got about 90 tracks of silence. Do those go for 99cents too?

  7. In Other News: by iCEBaLM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linkin Park, Radiohead, Madonna, Jewel and Green Day are protesting music listeners policy of single-song listening.

    Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer for Green Day was quoted as saying: "We made all of those songs on our album and arrainged them in an order. You should listen to them from the first track to the last, that's how we intended them to be listened to. Listening to just one track in the middle is classified a derivative work and we will sue you fools! Now pass the bong Tre."

  8. What we really need by nexus987 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What we really need is a way to just buy parts of songs. Like the chorus or the verse. Hell, I'd just like to buy the first four measures of a couple of songs. That's worth probably $.05 or $.10, right?

  9. Re:fools by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny
    Madonna

    "Art"

    smirk...

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  10. Re:KID A had filler, and so did Amnesiac by Arti · · Score: 2, Funny
    I felt the same way about A Tale of Two Cities and Robotech. But once I combined still frames of cuttings from Dickens with the giant robot action of Robotech I found a deeper meaning and a more enjoyable reading/watching experience.

    If Dickens can't understand that then he has no business serialising his works in newspapers and making it easy for people like me to cut out and recombine half a chapter at a time.

  11. What about the present? by wfrp01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The fear among artists is that the work of art they put together, the album, will become a thing of the past," says attorney Fred Goldring, whose firm represents Will Smith and Alanis Morissette.

    I didn't realize that Will Smith's albums were even a thing of the present.

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