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Outspoken Group Releases Album as Free Download
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."
Goddam war Bush threw is killing innocent people. I cannot believe that MY tax dollars go to support this fucking shit.
I release stuff in ogg vorbis because that's what my tools create, and ogg vorbis is a totally free format, not so that everyone with an ipod or windows media player can play it. ITMS can at any time impliment ogg vorbis support if they so choose, and I'm sure the ogg people will help with support if they so require. It's smaller than wav and doesn't lock you in nearly as much as wma or the equivilent on mac. In 2055, after the US government falls, and once north america is thrown into anarchy, using late-90's technology, a personal generator or solar cell, I should still be able to record and play an ogg vorbis file, using free software developed running on hardware built in the late-90's. While mp3 also might be capable of this, it is non-free, and therefor not acceptable to support.
(What makes mp3 so popular? The fact that everyone uses it, that its files are small, and decent of quality. If everyone used ogg vorbis, ogg vorbis would be popular- there's only one way to change this: Musicians releasing ogg vorbis files).
If you want mp3s encode them from the ogg vorbis files yourself. Or if it's a newer project encode from wav samples(if I still have them). I'll host them.
...you know...the 'mandatory suicide' stuff is utterly unfinished scraps, most of which doesn't sound all that good. This is not the same thing as releasing an album online. And I certianly didn't release an album online using bittorrent, which is a superior album distribution system which should be blatantly shown to be beyond a shadow of a doubt useful to everyone. I have never successfully released a full album online, although material from all my albums (including my best stuff, not included in the above link) have found their way online. Had Past Tense been a finished work in 2000 and released online as I had planned, I would have really have showed up these musicians. However, the Past Tense project tanked, and with it my first chance to do something that at least I don't think had really been done before (creating a double-cd album, distributing online, using nothing more than a home computer and mabye a pay-server for distribution).
But thanks for the plug schnitz0r.
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That's a first. I wrote a reply to the parent and posted to you. My mistake, sorry. I don't think even the preview could have saved me there.
GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
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GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
For anyone who want to know, I am sharing the OGG version via Emule... because I can not seed via bittorrent as I am behind my university NAT.
The ED2K link is
ed2k:// |file|Harvey_Danger-Little_by_Little.OGG.zip
|61374449|9D1ACFD07C04B74A13C0443D1B7A5673|
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Why the hell did you even post then? If not the one band with the flyer, any of the other bands?
You stole 3 seconds of my life with your post and I want them back.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
Ok, not bad, nothing terribly groundbreaking (what is, anymore?). I like it, if that means anything (but I've always been a big house/trance fan). I suggest you do your ID3 tags though.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?