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They Might Be Giants "Dial-a-Song" Returns, Online

Posted by timothy on Friday October 3, 2014 @10:22AM from the placebo-masquerading-as-a-simile dept.

uCallHimDrJ0NES writes Why is the world in love again? TMBG's website announced the return of the nerd music favorite 'Dial-a-song' service as a website. The plan is apparently a new song every week. The original PSTN-based Dial-a-Song service, which ran on an old-school answering machine, was a staple of nerd culture for years. Remember, those giants don't want to rule the world. They just want your half.

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Re:Music Distribution 3.0 by mythosaz · 2014-10-03 10:47 · Score: 5, Informative

On the contrary. They were there well before the bandwagon. Dial-a-Song went online in 1985, and you could "download" DRM-free songs from it directly to your cassette systems with only minimal equipment in a "minimally lossy" format.