Really, is there any pride in being the first post to an article?
Personally, I had doubts about posting that article, because it just said that no action's been taken yet. The determining factor was the CEO's remarks.
An artist should be free to release music however he wishes by whatever means he deems and can afford. It takes money for an independant artist to release a CD, and signing a record deal does give the artist more publicity and widespread distribution, but takes away from his control over his music and so on yadda yadda..... The point is, there's nothing like owning a CD of your favorite artist. One or two singles is sometimes all you will want from others. CDs wont die out, and neither will DVD, but there's a bit of restructuring that will take place.
Downloading Swindler's Lust from the website come as something other than your standard MP3 (or MP4)..... What we have is an executable file, a player that came with the music. It not only shows a snappy interface and oscilloscope (the wavy thing:), but it is an ADVERTISEMENT. Click on the picture of Public Enemy or it's logo, and you go to thier kick-@$$ website, where you can check out more stuff about the group. If you really dig it, then you'll go and buy their CDs. Folks, they are going a step beyond releasing the single to a bunch of radio stations. They are releasing an amazing little program to the world that should be impressive enough so that at least 1/4 or 1/8th become interested enough to buy thier stuff. Of course, when you are in the buisness as long as they have been, it's more than just the money. Take the money to pay your way, and along the way get everybody up on the beat. It's fun for them, it's their way of life. So go to the site, boot into Windows for a moment to check it out, and buy the CD if you like it. Plain and simple.
And seriously, why would they care if they didn't release something in Linux? It would have taken too much effort to cater to such a small part of the computing. They didn't release it as an MP3 because it'd become just another pirate pass-along. Too many of you are acting like there's been a great injustice. Just look at all the Macintosh users, they aren't chanting MAC OS! MAC OS! on the PE message board.
fellow Linux users, behave yourselves..... -Richard "Rahga" Hoelscher
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I wanna beret! Plus the Bra + Panty set for my girl....
I'm all for a real version of "The Running Man", just no gimmicks :)
Really, is there any pride in being the first post to an article?
Personally, I had doubts about posting that article, because it just said that no action's been taken yet. The determining factor was the CEO's remarks.
My girl would go for wearing a /. bra for me. Anything to make me happy. But then again, I'd probably never really want to take it off :)
An artist should be free to release music however he wishes by whatever means he deems and can afford.
It takes money for an independant artist to release a CD, and signing a record deal does give the artist more publicity and widespread distribution, but takes away from his control over his music and so on yadda yadda.....
The point is, there's nothing like owning a CD of your favorite artist. One or two singles is sometimes all you will want from others.
CDs wont die out, and neither will DVD, but there's a bit of restructuring that will take place.
Downloading Swindler's Lust from the website come as something other than your standard MP3 (or MP4)..... :), but it is an ADVERTISEMENT. Click on the picture of Public Enemy or it's logo, and you go to thier kick-@$$ website, where you can check out more stuff about the group. If you really dig it, then you'll go and buy their CDs.
What we have is an executable file, a player that came with the music. It not only shows a snappy interface and oscilloscope (the wavy thing
Folks, they are going a step beyond releasing the single to a bunch of radio stations. They are releasing an amazing little program to the world that should be impressive enough so that at least 1/4 or 1/8th become interested enough to buy thier stuff. Of course, when you are in the buisness as long as they have been, it's more than just the money. Take the money to pay your way, and along the way get everybody up on the beat. It's fun for them, it's their way of life.
So go to the site, boot into Windows for a moment to check it out, and buy the CD if you like it. Plain and simple.
And seriously, why would they care if they didn't release something in Linux? It would have taken too much effort to cater to such a small part of the computing. They didn't release it as an MP3 because it'd become just another pirate pass-along. Too many of you are acting like there's been a great injustice. Just look at all the Macintosh users, they aren't chanting MAC OS! MAC OS! on the PE message board.
fellow Linux users, behave yourselves.....
-Richard "Rahga" Hoelscher