Outspoken Group Releases Album as Free Download

SirNuke writes "Harvey Danger, a Seattle based rock band, has released their newest album Little by little for free mp3 download. They are doing this partially as an Internet publicity experiment, and partially as a stand against the Music Industry's attack on filesharing. From their website, 'In preparing to self-release our new album, we thought long and hard about how best to use the internet. Given our unusual history, and a long-held sense that the practice now being demonized by the music biz as "illegal" file sharing can be a friend to the independent musician, we have decided to embrace the indisputable fact of music in the 21st century, put our money where our mouth is, and make our record, Little By Little..., available for download via Bittorrent, and at our website. We're not streaming, or offering 30-second song samples, or annoying you with digital rights management software; we're putting up the whole record, for free, forever. Full stop. Please help yourself; if you like it, please share with friends.' I suggest you check it out."

Great marketing

[doxology]

Who needs the RIAA when you have Slashdot for publicity?

Decent band

[Anonymous Coward]

All I wish was that they were a decent band!

Gee... sort of like mp3.com

[popo]

...Does that mean we're going to have 100,000 very similar slashdot postings now?

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Except... wait! There *is* a story here: Slashdot Editors have finally been surpassed by a room full of chimps!

I totally don't remember that one...

[Vthornheart]

... but then again, there's a lot about music in the early-mid 90's that I blocked out of my mind. Sometimes I get nightmares of teenagers in baggy purple sequence pants, and I wake up screaming.

Flagpole Sitta Revisited

[Anonymous Coward]

Paranoia, paranoia!
The RIAA's coming to get me...
Just say you never met me...
I'm runnin undeground with the moles (digging holes)

Re:Great marketing

[Anonymous Coward]

What a great website http://www.isohunt.com/ [isohunt.com] is. I just went there and they notified me that my registry is corrupted, so I downloaded a registry cleaner to fix my system. Things like this show how beneficial some torrent sites are and they will eventually will be seen in a more positive light.

Re:Great marketing

[doxology]

Impossible! The Slashdot mods are always timely!

Re:Clap Clap Clap

[Mr.Progressive]

Whoa. I was just thinking about the song Flagpole Sitta the other day. I must've willed them back into existence.

Re:How is this novel?

[FidelCatsro]

"50 cent relesed 5 hit mixtapes before he did a single paid album."
So by the time he released an album he was $2.50

Damn!

[willpall]

I just paid $1.632 for the album on AllofMP3.com!

I've heard of jeff cliff

[themusicgod1]

It is false that nobody has ever heard of jeff cliff, by example, since I have heard of him(hell, I am him).
But your point still stands (even though I've been approached for movie soundtracks). Mod parent up.

Re:Shameless plug

[ScrewMaster]

I've been making it too, and I don't even have a band.

Re:I'm on a private helicopter...

[Osty]

I've been poking through the websites of one of the band members

Oh noes! He works [typepad.com] for the Mircosoft! You can't download the music now! (think about it -- Seattle band, guy got a CS degree, works for a "certain large software company" ...)

Re:I've heard of jeff cliff

[cHiphead]

Yeah I heard of that joker too, he thinks he's the shiznit and likes pie.

Cheers.

-=sNake

Re:Music labels dump small artists

[ZigiSamblak]

In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.

I hate to say I agree. These days, it takes REAL talent to get the attention of the music industry, not the musicians goofing off like in the punk or hippie era. It takes somebody with the brilliant creativity and style of Britney Spears to convince them to take a chance.

Seriously: I'm still trying to work out if your post was meant to be taken sarcastically or not.

Re:Great publicity stunt...

[Seumas]

How exactly is this band saying "screw you" to the RIAA?

The last successful song they had was almost EIGHT YEARS AGO. They've only put out maybe three albums in more than ELEVEN YEARS. This is not a band record companies are beating down the door to sign up. They were a big deal for a very brief time among college age people back in the mid to late 90s. Nothing more.

This is a lot like the school dork saying "I'm going to show those cheerleaders once and for all. I won't take ANY to the homecoming dance!".

Seriously. Come on.

Re:Rollins

[Bohnanza]

The Grateful Dead started doing this in the sixties.

I hope they are sued by the RIAA

[gelfling]

For violating the sacred law of raping and pillaging their own consumers.

Re:Great marketing

[Ruvim]

Wow! They told me the same thing! And I was in on UNIX! They ARE that good!

Re:Decent band

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. What a retarded post.
I don't like REM or Death Cab For Cutie either, but that doesn't make your post any less an exercise in penis stretching.

"Oh, I don't like THOSE bands, they're shit. I listen to much better stuff than that"

Guess what. Nobody gives a shit.
In fact... just what bands do you like? I don't even need you to reply for this, just replace X, Y and Z as appropriate...

X,Y,and Z?! You like THAT mainstream pop shit? Oh well, if that's what you enjoy, I guess, but some of us round here like listening to REAL music.

Hey, check it out! I'm officially much cooler than you now.

Re:Go away, you're not 21

[Anonymous Coward]

Have today's youth forgotten how to get fake ids?

Re:Great marketing

[bcmm]

I've often thought of trying to find some sort of tech support for one of those things, maybe whatever contact is on the maker's website, complaining that it must work on my system because the banner ad said my "system could be optimised", and how do I run exe files on my Unix box/phone/whatever. It especially amuses me when they try to make it look like a system alert of some sort by using Win XP window decorations.

Re:Great marketing

[nocomment]

I used to listen to music through iRate quite a bit...

Didn't we invade iRate?