[CoLoCo] Amazon MP3's

[TJ Heaney]

Just a note on the new NIN albums,

I've heard some samples, sounds good, BUT when I attempted to download it,
it wasn't liking the DL. There's been a TON of traffic, so you may want to
wait.

TJ

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On topic with your rant Jim, you may be interested in the new Nine Inch
> Nails Project.
> Trent Reznor has recently dropped his label, so he is now in complete
> control of his music.  This past Sunday March 1st, he has released his new
> album, Ghosts <http://ghosts.nin.com>.  This Album has been released to
> the net as DRM-Free, Creative Commons ShareAlike<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/>MP3's.
> Also, he has set up various price points that you can buy the record, from
> a free 9 song sample d/l at 320kbs all the way up to a $300 deluxe package
> (limited to 2500 copies which have already sold out).
>
> I am hoping with this, along with Radiohead, others will hope in line and
> drop off the RIAA bandwagon.  It seems that is it a very exciting time to be
> a music fan!.
> *
> *
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Nelson E. Ingersoll <
> > nelson.ingersoll at email.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  DRM is wrong.  Don't
> > > support it in any way.
> > >
> > > <rant>
> > I'm something of an anarchist by nature. I personally hate the download
> > music business in all forms. The Internet is like the old west. It's wild,
> > dangerous and full of opportunity. Anyone trying to limit that opportunity
> > is just a buzz-kill. I have nothing against artist getting paid for what
> > they do but they don't get paid much - the labels are making the money.
> > Artist should take control of their work and distribute MP3s for free and
> > then package high quality audio on feature packed discs (or downloadable iso
> > or something) for sale. Thanks in part to all this MP3 crap DVD-Audio and
> > SACD have more or less died. Maybe Blu-Ray audio in on the horizon but
> > doesn't anyone care about quality anymore? I don't buy CDs anymore. Not
> > because I download everything for free but because they are overpriced,
> > featureless, and usually bad music. I was buying SACDs and DVD-Audio but
> > they have once again lost me as a customer. RIAA needs to wake up and stop
> > peddling crud and realize that is as much a reason for poor sales as
> > downloading. NIN got it right. I hope we see more of that in the near
> > future.</rant>
> >
> > -jim
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