Like Coldplay? Like Eminem?
Yes? You have odd taste.
Regardless – Coldplay release their live album for free download at 9am tomorrow. I bet it’s boring. I got stuck in the crowds at Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage and suffered 15 minutes of the band before managing to escape to the Other stage to see Orbital. Who were equally as dull.
MnM has his 1995 Infinite album available for you to steal. It’s not very good. But it’s free. So what the heck? It’s some kind of PR exercise to source more sales of his ‘eagerly anticipated’ Relapse. Infinte sold 70 of the 1,000 pressed copies, so be honoured, brethren!
So why are artists giving their music away? Check out this timely article by Bhairavi Jhaveri.
Music seems so transient and unloved now. Yes, Radiohead asked us to ‘value’ their music before we downloaded it for £0.07, but with Coldplay and Eminem doling out the freebies, where does that leave smaller acts?
Struggling. Working harder than ever to make themselves heard among the noise. Nothing wrong with that, it just means that if and when they get recognised, it’s won’t be purely down to chance or who they know.
I hope it’ll be because they’ve created something that the true seekers of new music can believe in.