U2 Threatens to Release Album Early on iTunes 572
Uninvited Guest writes "After a rough cut of U2's latest unfinished album was stolen earlier this week, the band has vowed to release the entire album on iTunes if the music appears on P2P networks. Bono told the London Daily Telegraph, 'If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month.' Is this the exact opposite of the Smashing Pumpkins' last album, which the band rushed to release on P2P networks, before it could hit the stores?"
Wrong about Smashing Pumpkins (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:sooo? (Score:5, Informative)
Achtung baby, 1991 #10 on rolling stone readers alltime best albums list 2002 [rocklist.net], #62 on the editors top top 500 alltime albums [rocklist.net]
All that you can't leave behind, 2000 #16, #139
Zooropa, 1993 #70, -
All that you can't leave behind is probably too high on the reader list due to the proximity between release and poll time but the other two definitly earned their spots.
Re:All a big publicity gimmick? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wrong about Smashing Pumpkins (Score:3, Informative)
But as several people have said, only a few songs from Machina II ever ended up on commercial release - those were included on the second disc of the SP Greatest Hits compilation, called Judas O.
For more complete information, check here. [spfc.org] For a copy of Machina II, try SoulSeek. There's an SP hub on Direct Connect, but they're kind of bastardly about letting people on.
Correct, and there's more ... (Score:4, Informative)
[...] they used P2P as the *only* way to release the album.
Correct. Billy Corgan stated it was a personal "fuck you" to Virgin Records for preventing them in releasing the album. It was then they stopped as the band Smashing Pumpkins, to which BC said it wasn't because of issues within the band internally, but that they were tired of competing with "all the Britney Spearses out there" (something like that).
All this makes the album title quite interesting: "Machina II - Friends and Enemies of Modern Music".
IMO, what they did was very commendable given the circumstances. Thanks Billy and friends for releasing the album!
zRe:speaking of that Smashing Pumpkins... (Score:1, Informative)
Other good stuff here as well.
Re:What Is The Worry? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What Is The Worry? (Score:3, Informative)
Actually there are quite a lot of them- go to sourceforge [sourceforge.net] and do a search of P2P. It will list quite a few.
the pumpkins' last album (Score:2, Informative)