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Outspoken Group Releases Album as Free Download

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the please-continue-the-trend dept.

SirNuke writes "Harvey Danger, a Seattle based rock band, has released their newest album Little by little for free mp3 download. They are doing this partially as an Internet publicity experiment, and partially as a stand against the Music Industry's attack on filesharing. From their website, 'In preparing to self-release our new album, we thought long and hard about how best to use the internet. Given our unusual history, and a long-held sense that the practice now being demonized by the music biz as "illegal" file sharing can be a friend to the independent musician, we have decided to embrace the indisputable fact of music in the 21st century, put our money where our mouth is, and make our record, Little By Little..., available for download via Bittorrent, and at our website. We're not streaming, or offering 30-second song samples, or annoying you with digital rights management software; we're putting up the whole record, for free, forever. Full stop. Please help yourself; if you like it, please share with friends.' I suggest you check it out."

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  1. Great marketing by doxology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who needs the RIAA when you have Slashdot for publicity?

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    1. Re:Great marketing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What a great website http://www.isohunt.com/ is. I just went there and they notified me that my registry is corrupted, so I downloaded a registry cleaner to fix my system. Things like this show how beneficial some torrent sites are and they will eventually will be seen in a more positive light.

    2. Re:Great marketing by Ruvim · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow! They told me the same thing! And I was in on UNIX! They ARE that good!

  2. Gee... sort of like mp3.com by popo · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Does that mean we're going to have 100,000 very similar slashdot postings now?

    Nothing to see here. Move along.

    Except... wait! There *is* a story here: Slashdot Editors have finally been surpassed by a room full of chimps!

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  3. I totally don't remember that one... by Vthornheart · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... but then again, there's a lot about music in the early-mid 90's that I blocked out of my mind. Sometimes I get nightmares of teenagers in baggy purple sequence pants, and I wake up screaming.

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  4. Re:How is this novel? by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Funny

    "50 cent relesed 5 hit mixtapes before he did a single paid album."
    So by the time he released an album he was $2.50

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  5. I've heard of jeff cliff by themusicgod1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is false that nobody has ever heard of jeff cliff, by example, since I have heard of him(hell, I am him).
    But your point still stands (even though I've been approached for movie soundtracks). Mod parent up.

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  6. Re:Music labels dump small artists by ZigiSamblak · · Score: 4, Funny

    In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.

    I hate to say I agree. These days, it takes REAL talent to get the attention of the music industry, not the musicians goofing off like in the punk or hippie era. It takes somebody with the brilliant creativity and style of Britney Spears to convince them to take a chance.

    Seriously: I'm still trying to work out if your post was meant to be taken sarcastically or not.