So, my friend wants to listen to the new CD from Erasure-opening band Elkland on her work computer.
There are, of course, many sites that offer better arguments than myself against the major labels, but you get to benefit directly from my rage. I am offering a completely free taster from Elkland's new album, Golden. Right click (or control-click if you're on a Mac) here to download a 4.3mb, 192kbps MP3 of "Everybody's Leaving," which is my favorite song on the record. If you like this, of course, I recommend buying the album as it's a decent enough record - they've got about four songs that they represent in three different ways, like the Killers did on Hot Fuss. All in all, this is fun synthpop that sounds like they raided my diary when I was 17 and wrote songs about all the pining and angst and miserablism I had then.
Sony, you bastards, I'm promoting your record that's not going to get any fucking radio play. I am encouraging people to purchase this album, even with your restrictive measures that don't, you know, work against a Macintosh. You have to know that The Long Tail exists thanks to people like me, so why make it harder to get the good word out?
*** Message (#187) from InternetFriend at 10:00 ***Now, to get to listen to this record, the person that has the CD has to go and install some sort of proprietary player, which she can't do because she doesn't have administrator rights on the work computer. I just love how Sony is a pile of hypocritical jackasses who get bands into usurious contracts full of bullshit terms like "cross-collateralization" that make sure that the artist sees less money than they'd make with an indie label that wouldn't restrict them in as many ways who then turn around and fuck over the consumer in the exact same manner with restrictions on what you can do with the music that you bought outright.
>I just want to effing listen to the CD.
>I don't want to rip it. I don't want to illegally distribute it.
>I JUST WANT TO LISTEN TO IT.
There are, of course, many sites that offer better arguments than myself against the major labels, but you get to benefit directly from my rage. I am offering a completely free taster from Elkland's new album, Golden. Right click (or control-click if you're on a Mac) here to download a 4.3mb, 192kbps MP3 of "Everybody's Leaving," which is my favorite song on the record. If you like this, of course, I recommend buying the album as it's a decent enough record - they've got about four songs that they represent in three different ways, like the Killers did on Hot Fuss. All in all, this is fun synthpop that sounds like they raided my diary when I was 17 and wrote songs about all the pining and angst and miserablism I had then.
Sony, you bastards, I'm promoting your record that's not going to get any fucking radio play. I am encouraging people to purchase this album, even with your restrictive measures that don't, you know, work against a Macintosh. You have to know that The Long Tail exists thanks to people like me, so why make it harder to get the good word out?
