Magnatune - a Non-Evil Record Label?

jea6 writes "As seen on Fark and sure to intrest non-crossover Slashdotters, Magnatune is a record company with a catchy slogan. They highlight: 1) We're a record label. But we're not evil. 2) We call it 'try before you buy.' It's the shareware model applied to music. 3) Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations. 4) If you like what you hear, buy our music online for as little as $5 an album or license our music for commercial use. 5) Artists get a full 50% of the purchase price. And unlike most record labels, our artists keep their rights to their music. 6) Founded by musicians, for musicians. No major label connections. We are not evil. So if you are anti-RIAA (artist or consumer) and looking for an option (albeit a small option), this may be a start. The music is Creative Commons licensed, which is the brainchild of the eminent Lawrence Lessig."

hmm

[B3ryllium]

Evil will always triumph over Good, because Good is Dumb.

A swift kick in the rear

[Quixo-tastic]

To the first tinfoil hat owning AC to suggest the RIAA submitted this to get their competition /.ed off the face of the planet. =)

It may be non evil...

[willll]

but it still sucks unless its got good music.

hmmmmm...

[TWX]

Overheard in a Best Buy or Virgin Megastore as someone reaches for a CD from a major distributor:

"It's Evil! Don't Touch It!"

POOF!

Re:Whoa, this is great

[BJH]

No, no, it should be "I, for one, welcome our non-evil overlords."

You see? Much better.

Re:'try before you buy'

[1000StonedMonkeys]

Coke out of the faucet tastes awful... They put so much chlorine in it you can hardly taste the coke. The filters do an okay job, but I still buy my coke in the bottle.

Re:the test

[blincoln]

Hey editors, obviously we need two new mods - (+1, Anti-Piracy) and (-1, Criticizing Me For Doing Something Illegal).

This isn't a troll, and neither are the hundreds of posts that criticize pirates that are also modded as trolls. It's a legitimate comment, because people who pirate music are going to come up with another excuse just as the parent is implying.

Re:This is NOT an RAII competitor

[Anonymous Coward]

RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America, headquarters of evil organization bent on world domination via infiltrating the music industry.

RAII: Resource Acquisition Is Initialization, an acroynym for a common if somewhat awkwardly named C++ idiom for easily dealing with resource cleanup, particularly in the face of exceptions. Possible evilness of C++ is debated on other threads on Slashdot (whereas the alignment of the RIAA is taken as axiomatic).

Re:hmm

[mcpkaaos]

"A quote is just an observation by a famous person."

-E_eleven

So much for that.