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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."
Shitty food shows, British "comedy" (now THERE's an oxymoron), a nightly news program anchored by a guy who can't decide whether he's going to fall asleep or just plain fall over dead on air. And that's the best stuff. The rest is a bunch of whiny-ass PC liberal faggotry, careful always to only show that whiny liberal faggot viewpoint, whether the show's directed at impressionable kids (Sesame Street, etc.) or impressionable adults (NOW without, thank God, Bill Moyers, or whatever horseshit that pussy Moyers is up to now). I can't believe that MY tax dollars go to support this fucking shit.
Jeff who? Jeff the Jack Off? What the fuck are you babbling about???
I was talking to a guy who had a small group which had a contract with a music label. Fact is, P2P swapping is hurting the music labels badly - to the point where smaller artists have just been cut off the roster. From the guy I was talking to, he didn't like the situation much at all. He had to look for other work. So not all artists are happy with the state of affairs. I mention this cause I doubt many other posters on Slashdot are going to look the other way for a minute.
In some way P2P is causing smaller artists to fend for themselves more it seems - without the teat and gravy train of the music label. In a way they are more free to conduct business, but in other way they aren't free in the sense that they can simply concentrate on their music anymore - because they have to fend for themselves in the marketing arena as well, which is quite difficult and time consuming. So in one way they are free from the music labels, but not free from the extra work they have to put in... and from the POV that I got from the guy I was speaking to, he liked the old way better.
In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.
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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".
No, no, no! Don't you see?! They're a HUGE SUCCESSFUL GROUP OF MUSICIANS!
Why, they're as successful and relevant and interesting and crucial to music and the industry as the Presidents of the USA and Ugly Kid Joe!
*snicker*
Then again, morons around here get chubs over They Might Be Giants, which I can't stand any more than I can stand the Harvey Danger garbage.