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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."
This is not news, not when bands have been doing this since the days of Napster (voluntarily releasing whole CDs on internet only free release MP3).
Let the "(-1) Belligerant hammering of bad slashdot news" begin! ;)
-Vendal Thornheart
Idiot.
Great. The "I have a friend who has a brother who once heard someone talking about this" expert. Thanks for sharing your personal, first-hand knowledge of the music business...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Yeah, they're such a huge success that they play cafes and other small venues and have to give their music away for free to get attention. It's probably less to do with "making a point to the RIAA" as it does "making lemonade out of no RIAA label being willing to carry us any longer".
And for those who don't remember "flagpole sitta"... I can only say "lucky you".